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{
    "localId": "96243",
    "label": "Pricked Spur",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "96243",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pricked Spur",
    "description": "The spur was an essential part of the knight's equipment. Fastened to his heels by means of straps and buckles, it was used to prod a horse into action. This example represents the oldest type recorded, the \"pricked\" spur, so-called because its neck terminated in a spike. The pricked spur was replaced during the Middle Ages by the \"rowel\" spur, with a rotating spiked wheel.",
    "date": "1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1953",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60778174"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms and Armor"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 19 x 8.4 cm (7 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.1953"
}

{
    "tec": "steel",
    "tombstone": "Pricked Spur, 1200s. Spain. Steel; overall: 19 x 8.4 cm (7 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1953",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "didYouKnow": "Before they were made of metal, the earliest spurs were probably thorns that were attached to the back of the heel.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour.</em> [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.",
            "page_number": "cat. #527",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 233, J7",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n329"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 74, p. 166."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Louis, William Noel, and Daniel H. Weiss. <em>The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible</em>. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002.",
            "page_number": "pp. 84, 188, fig. 1, cat. no. 30"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 79, p. 186"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1953",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:10:57.373000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 96243,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "med": "steel",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "b205022804c5f91e"
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