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"title": "Mirror with Engraved Scene: Two Female Figures",
"creation_date": "330\u2013300 BCE",
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"department": "Greek and Roman Art",
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"measurements": "Overall: 36 cm (14 3/16 in.)",
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"did_you_know": "The piriform shape of this mirror suggests that it was produced in Praeneste (modern Palestrina).",
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"page_number": "Mentioned, illustrated (Disc section) pp. 25-27.",
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"citation": "De Puma, Richard Daniel. \"Greek Myths on Three Etruscan Mirrors in Cleveland.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 7 (1983): 290-302.",
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"citation": "De Puma, Richard Daniel. Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, U.S.A. volume 1: Midwestern Collections. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987.",
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