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    "localId": "156774",
    "label": "Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros)",
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    "id": "156774",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros)",
    "description": "Broken from the upper wall of a large mixing vessel, this fragment shows the head of a woman wearing an earring and an elaborate ribbon in her hair. A faint inscription identifies her as Aglauros, a daughter of Kekrops, the mythical first king of Athens. Although worshipped in a shrine near the Acropolis, Aglauros appears quite rarely in Athenian art, usually with her sisters at the birth of Erichthonios, a future king.",
    "date": "c. 460–450 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.369",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.369/1992.369_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6.8 x 7.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "accession": "1992.369"
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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros), c. 460–450 BCE. Attributed to Nausicaa Painter (also known as Polygnotos III; Greek, Attic, active c. 460–440 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 6.8 x 7.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Frances W. Ingalls, 1992.369",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "inscription"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "An inscription identifies this woman as Aglauros, an Athenian princess.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.",
            "page_number": "BAPD 214656",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/5D1FA3F1-997A-4A0E-A9B6-AA631B6619BD"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Brommer, Vasenlisten, 258, B 1, s.v. \"A\"; <em>Enciclopedia dell'arte antica classica e orientale</em> 1 (1958).",
            "page_number": "p. 140"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.",
            "page_number": "p. 1108, no. 17."
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae</em> (LIMC). Zürich: Artemis, 1981.",
            "page_number": "286, no. 2"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"1993 Annual Report.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (1994).",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 158",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, J. \"Lost and Found,\" <em>CMA Members Magazine</em> (February 1995).",
            "page_number": "p. 8-9",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1995-02/page/8"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
            "page_number": "p. 33, pl. 70"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mannack, Thomas. <em>The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase-Painting</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.",
            "page_number": "P. 25, Fig. 4.1, p. 138, N. 17."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.369",
    "creditline": "Gift of Frances W. Ingalls",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:08:58.039000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.369/1992.369_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 156774,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "ceramic",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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