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    "localId": "133751",
    "label": "Spoon",
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    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "133751",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Spoon",
    "date": "300s CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.36",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60778315"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.36/1956.36_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Byzantium, Syria(?), Byzantine period"
    ],
    "accession": "1956.36"
}

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    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "Spoon, 300s CE. Byzantium, Syria(?), Byzantine period. Silver; overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1956.36",
    "collection": "MED - Byzantine",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Greek inscription the center of the bowl."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 48",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n23"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Early Byzantine Silver.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>45, no. 3 (March 1958): 35-40.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 39; Reproduced: p. 46",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142265"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.36",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:51:53.456000",
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    "sourceId": 133751,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
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}

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