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    "localId": "97639",
    "label": "Towel",
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    "id": "97639",
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    "title": "Towel",
    "date": "c. 1500",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.281",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 108 x 52.1 cm (42 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.)",
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            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 6 (1917): 109-11.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 109",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136111"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.",
            "page_number": "p. 45-6, 59"
        }
    ],
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    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:15:41.272000",
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