{"data": {"id": 98363, "accession_number": "1917.998", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Cat Coffin, 305\u201330 BCE. Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE\u2013395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305\u201330 BCE). Bronze, hollow cast; overall: 51 x 14.1 x 24 cm (20 1/16 x 5 9/16 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1917.998", "current_location": "107 Egyptian", "title": "Cat Coffin", "creation_date": "305\u201330 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -305, "creation_date_latest": -30, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE\u2013395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305\u201330 BCE)"], "technique": "bronze, hollow cast", "support_materials": [], "department": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art", "collection": "Egypt - Greco-Roman", "type": "Funerary Equipment", "measurements": "Overall: 51 x 14.1 x 24 cm (20 1/16 x 5 9/16 x 9 7/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.51, "height_inch": 20, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.141, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5625, "depth": 0.24, "depth_inch": 9, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.4375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 312341, "title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition", "description": "<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).", "opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"}, {"id": 304550, "title": "A Cleveland Bestiary", "description": "<i>A Cleveland Bestiary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).", "opening_date": "1981-10-15T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1916). no. 163, p. 225", "opening_date": "1916-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (29 August 1952 - 2 April 1953).", "opening_date": "1952-08-29T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1981b). no. 31", "opening_date": "1981-01-01T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Dikran G. Kelekian, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1917", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1917-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": ["1584.17"], "did_you_know": "A necklace appears to have been incised or scratched into the finished bronze; faint traces are visible on the chest.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Although the cat is considered the most Egyptian of animals, as an object of worship the cat does not appear until late in Egyptian history. This unusually large statue of a cat was made to hold the mummified remains of a sacred cat. The coffin is, of course, hollow, with an open bottom. As usual, the animal\u2019s tail is curled around its right side.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60741470"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1917.998-cat-coffin"]}, "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. 7", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n18"}, {"citation": "Kathman, Barbara A. <em>A Cleveland Bestiary</em>. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 37; Mentioned: p. 33, p. 62", "url": null}, {"citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. 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