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    "localId": "156400",
    "label": "Mortar",
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    "id": "156400",
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    "title": "Mortar",
    "date": "1100s–1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.190",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.); Overall: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.); Diameter of rim: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "accession": "1992.19"
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    "tec": "Cast bronze with incised decoration",
    "tombstone": "Mortar, 1100s–1200s. Iran, Seljuq period (1037–1194). Cast bronze with incised decoration; diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.); overall: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.); diameter of rim: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. R. E. Petrequin, 1992.190",
    "collection": "Islamic Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Thulth inscription on the Base, undeciphered"
        }
    ],
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        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 76, no. 357",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25161388"
        }
    ],
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    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:08:07.571000",
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