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    "localId": "165321",
    "label": "S-Shaped Fibula",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "165321",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "S-Shaped Fibula",
    "date": "500s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.225",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Jewelry"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.225/2007.225_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 2.2 x 2.8 x 0.8 cm (7/8 x 1 1/8 x 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Frankish, 6th century"
    ],
    "accession": "2007.225"
}

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    "tec": "silver with garnets",
    "tombstone": "S-Shaped Fibula, 500s. Frankish, 6th century. Silver with garnets; overall: 2.2 x 2.8 x 0.8 cm (7/8 x 1 1/8 x 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Joe Hatzenbuehler, 2007.225",
    "collection": "MED - Migration Period",
    "didYouKnow": "Garnets, the red stones in this brooch, are found in small waterways like streams.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. \"Movable Pieces.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 50, no. 4 (July/August 2010): 24-25.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 25",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2010-04/page/n23/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 106-109; Reproduced: p. 107"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.225",
    "creditline": "Gift of Joe Hatzenbuehler",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:34:05.282000",
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    "sourceId": 165321,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Migration Period",
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}

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