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    "localId": "160921",
    "label": "Container with Deity Head and Winged Attendants",
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    "id": "160921",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Container with Deity Head and Winged Attendants",
    "description": "The head of the staff deity, the most important supernatural being depicted in Wari art, appears on the ends of this container, the function of which is mysterious. The sides feature two of the deity's attendants, each with a wing and N-shaped fangs drawn from the animal world. One of these creatures carries a staff, a supreme symbol of divine authority and power.",
    "date": "600–1000 (Thermoluminescence date, 730–1190)",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.2",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 16.6 x 16.9 x 21.8 cm (6 9/16 x 6 5/8 x 8 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Central Andes, central coast, coastal Wari style"
    ],
    "accession": "1999.2"
}

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    "tec": "ceramic and slip",
    "tombstone": "Container with Deity Head and Winged Attendants, 600–1000 (Thermoluminescence date, 730–1190). Central Andes, central coast, coastal Wari style. Ceramic and slip; overall: 16.6 x 16.9 x 21.8 cm (6 9/16 x 6 5/8 x 8 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 1999.2",
    "collection": "AA - Andes",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Benin Bronze Plaque, Rembrandt Print, Other Works of Art Enter CMA Collection,” March 12, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4240"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bergh, Susan E., Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, and Luis Jaime Castillo. <em>Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes.</em> [New York]: Thames &amp; Hudson; [Cleveland] : The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 270, no. 56; Reproduced: P. 17, fig. 14"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:22:03.011000",
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    "sourceId": 160921,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Andes",
    "med": "ceramic and slip",
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