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    "localId": "155643",
    "label": "Sword-hilt with Phoenix Head Ring Pommel",
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    "title": "Sword-hilt with Phoenix Head Ring Pommel",
    "date": "500s",
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            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “Acquisitions: 1990.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 2 (February 1991): 30–45.",
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