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    "label": "Alexander the Great Searches for the Fountain of Life",
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    "title": "Alexander the Great Searches for the Fountain of Life",
    "description": "On this folio from Walters manuscript W.623, Alexander the Great (Iskandar) searches for the Fountain of Life which is made invisible by the prophets Khizr and Ilyas.",
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    "date": "1017 AH/AD 1609 (Safavid)",
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