{"data": {"id": 154738, "accession_number": "1989.32", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Palette in the Form of a Fish, c. 3500\u20132950 BCE. Egypt, Predynastic (5000\u20132950 BCE), Naqada II\u2013III (3650\u20133000 BCE). Graywacke; overall: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth M. Skala, 1989.32", "current_location": "107 Egyptian", "title": "Palette in the Form of a Fish", "creation_date": "c. 3500\u20132950 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -3500, "creation_date_latest": -2950, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Egypt, Predynastic (5000\u20132950 BCE), Naqada II\u2013III (3650\u20133000 BCE)"], "technique": "graywacke", "support_materials": [], "department": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art", "collection": "Egypt - Predynastic", "type": "Tools and Equipment", "measurements": "Overall: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"width": 0.105, "width_inch": 4, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125, "length": 0.233, "length_inch": 9, "length_inch_fraction": 0.1875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 310333, "title": "The Year in Review for 1989", "description": "<i>The Year in Review for 1989</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).", "opening_date": "1990-02-06T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "CMA 1990, no. 7, illus. p. 52", "opening_date": "1990-01-01T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Said to have been in the collections of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie and John Garstang. Purchased from Peter Scharrer, New York", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": null}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This fish shape is one of the most common for Egyptian cosmetic palettes.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Stone palettes were used for grinding eye paint worn for cosmetic purposes and to protect against sun glare and eye infections. There were two types: green, made from malachite (copper ore), and black, made from galena (lead ore). As funerary items, these ores may have had a deep significance for the deceased as symbols of regeneration and rebirth: the rich soil of the banks of the Nile (black), and the lush vegetation it sustained (green).", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60755668"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1989.32-palette-in-the-form"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "E. H. T. \u201cThe Year in Review: Selections 1989.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 2 (February 1990): 38\u201378.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 52; Mentioned: p. 66, no. 7", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160106"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 2", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n18"}, {"citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Boha\u010d.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 115-116; Reproduced: p. 115, color p. 42", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.32", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.32/1989.32_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "691", "filesize": "541697", "filename": "1989.32_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.32/1989.32_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "1859", "filesize": "4328461", "filename": "1989.32_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.32/1989.32_full.tif", "width": "5045", "height": "2759", "filesize": "41787312", "filename": "1989.32_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.32/1989.32_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "741", "filesize": "583396"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.32/1989.32_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "1995", "filesize": "4655433"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.32/1989.32_alt0_full.tif", "width": "4836", "height": "2838", "filesize": "41203704"}, "date_created": "2007-06-19T18:14:00", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Bequest of Elizabeth M. 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