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    "localId": "156390",
    "label": "Beaker with Scale Pattern",
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    "id": "156390",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Beaker with Scale Pattern",
    "description": "The dark brown glaze on the exterior of this beaker is patchy and irregular, allowing the light red clay beneath to show through. The glaze is especially light on the ridges of the raised scales that decorate the upper body of the vessel, arranged in four offset rows. The pattern was created by applying thick clay slip to the surface of the beaker after it was removed from the potter’s wheel.",
    "date": "1–100 CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.183",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60753855"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.183/1992.183_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.183/1992.183_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 1st Century"
    ],
    "accession": "1992.183"
}

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    "tec": "reddish ware with dark gray burnished slip",
    "tombstone": "Beaker with Scale Pattern, 1–100 CE. Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 1st Century. Reddish ware with dark gray burnished slip; diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.); overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Rainer Zietz, 1992.183",
    "collection": "GR - Roman",
    "didYouKnow": "Several textile fibers were found inside this beaker, suggesting that it may have contained an object or objects wrapped in cloth when it was buried.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"The Year in Review for 1992.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 41; Mentioned: p. 41, 65",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.183",
    "creditline": "Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Rainer Zietz",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:08:10.376000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.183/1992.183_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 156390,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Roman",
    "med": "reddish ware with dark gray burnished slip",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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