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    "localId": "97012",
    "label": "Finger Ring with Frog",
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}

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    "id": "97012",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Finger Ring with Frog",
    "description": "The shank or band of this ring is crescent-shaped and circular in section; its upper sections are covered with heavy gold wire. The oval bezel on a swivel, the metal that holds the stone, takes the form of a scaraboid, or seal amulet in the shape of a scarab. Its sides are encircled by a double row of granules and are surmounted by a delicately molded frog in the round. The underside is incised with a <em>nefer</em>-sign to the right and a <em>wedjat</em>-eye.",
    "date": "c. 1353–1337 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.658",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60751679"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Jewelry"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.658/1916.658_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.658/1916.658_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 2.3 cm (7/8 in.); Overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE)"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.658"
}

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    "tec": "gold",
    "tombstone": "Finger Ring with Frog, c. 1353–1337 BCE. Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE). Gold; diameter: 2.3 cm (7/8 in.); overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, 1916.658",
    "collection": "Egypt - New Kingdom",
    "didYouKnow": "An exact duplicate of this ring, apart from the inscription, is in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Morrell Bryan, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Elisabeth Delange.<em> Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992.",
            "page_number": "no. 131"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 285; Mentioned: p. 285-286"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.658",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:13:30.597000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.658/1916.658_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97012,
    "dept": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
    "coll": "Egypt - New Kingdom",
    "med": "gold",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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