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        "title": "White Cross-Lined Bowl with Turtle and Sun",
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        "department": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
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        "type": "Vessels",
        "measurements": "Diameter: 18.1 cm (7 1/8 in.); Diameter of mouth: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.); Overall: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.)",
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        "description": "Red polished vessels with white painted decoration (known as white cross-lined ware or C-ware) represent Egypt\u2019s oldest known tradition in painted pottery. The decoration on this bowl, painted after firing, features the sun on the side and a turtle on the bottom of the vessel. The turtle was considered the enemy of the Egyptian sun god Ra because it preferred the murky river bottom to the sunlight.",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. <em>Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 3",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n5"
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                "citation": "Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth. \u201cPrehistoric Egyptian Pottery.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 3 (March 1988): 74\u201394.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 78-81, fig. 2 a-c, cover",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160021"
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                "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": "Reproduced: p. 103, color p. 42 ; Mentioned: p. 103-104",
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