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    "localId": "94495",
    "label": "Cosmetic Vessel (Cylinder Beaker)",
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    "id": "94495",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Cosmetic Vessel (Cylinder Beaker)",
    "description": "Jars of this shape and material are common in Middle Kingdom tombs. This one, however, is inscribed with the Egyptian word <em>merhet</em>, which means \"perfumed oil,\" and after thousands of years it still has traces of sweet-smelling resin.",
    "date": "1980–1801 BCE",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter of mouth: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.); Overall: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt, Middle Kingdom (2040–1648 BCE), Dynasty 12"
    ],
    "accession": "1914.813"
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    "tec": "travertine",
    "tombstone": "Cosmetic Vessel (Cylinder Beaker), 1980–1801 BCE. Egypt, Middle Kingdom (2040–1648 BCE), Dynasty 12. Travertine; diameter of mouth: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.); overall: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1914.813",
    "collection": "Egypt - Middle Kingdom",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "73.14"
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. “Egyptian Stone Vessels in Cleveland.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 327–339.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 332-333, fig. 16-17",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159955"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 162; Mentioned: p. 162"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:01:44.024000",
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