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    "localId": "161321",
    "label": "Daedalic Pendant with Potnia Theron (Mistress of Animals)",
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    "id": "161321",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Daedalic Pendant with Potnia Theron (Mistress of Animals)",
    "description": "This pendant shows the goddess Potnia Theron, the “mistress of the animals,” a deity sometimes associated with the Greek goddess Artemis. The goddess stands in a frontal pose with upswept wings, one curving above each shoulder. Each of her fists closes around the leash of a rearing feline. This piece is one of two nearly identical pendants in the collection (1999.88 and 2001.157) that were probably originally from the same necklace.",
    "date": "650–600 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.88",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60746507"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.88/1999.88_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.88/1999.88_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.88/1999.88_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 3 x 2 cm (1 3/16 x 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Eastern Greece, Rhodian"
    ],
    "accession": "1999.88"
}

{
    "tec": "gold and glass",
    "tombstone": "Daedalic Pendant with Potnia Theron (Mistress of Animals), 650–600 BCE. Eastern Greece, Rhodian. Gold and glass; overall: 3 x 2 cm (1 3/16 x 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1999.88",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 161879,
            "description": "Daedalic Pendant with Potnia Theron (Mistress of the Animals), 650–600 BCE. Eastern Greece, Rhodian. Gold and glass-like substance; overall: 3 x 2 cm (1 3/16 x 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell, 2001.157"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The small loops at the bottom of the pendants probably held chains attached to pomegranate-shaped beads.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Bennett, Michael, \"Mistress of the Animals\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 40 no. 02, February 2000",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p.8-9",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2000-02/page/8"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.88",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:23:18.722000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.88/1999.88_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 161321,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "gold and glass",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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