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    "localId": "149407",
    "label": "Piriform (Pear-Shaped) Jar",
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    "id": "149407",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Piriform (Pear-Shaped) Jar",
    "description": "This shape was popular in its time as the amphora was several hundred years later, and probably served a similar function as a storage vessel. It was exported and imitated all over the Mediterranean world during the late Bronze Age.",
    "date": "c. 1400–1300 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.60",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.60/1978.60_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); Overall: 17.8 cm (7 in.); Diameter of base: 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greek, Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIA1-2b"
    ],
    "accession": "1978.6"
}

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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "Piriform (Pear-Shaped) Jar, c. 1400–1300 BCE. Greek, Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIA1-2b. Ceramic; diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); overall: 17.8 cm (7 in.); diameter of base: 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leo Mildenberg, 1978.60",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Boulter, C. G, Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, [united States of America], The Cleveland Museum of Art. Fasc. 35.</em> Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1971.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 20, Pl. 56.5-6; Reproduced: Pl. 56.5-6"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. <em>Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989.",
            "page_number": "p. 1"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.60",
    "creditline": "Gift of Leo Mildenberg",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:41:34.568000",
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    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "ceramic",
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}

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