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        "tombstone": "Button, 500s. Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 6th century. Rock crystal with a garnet mounted in a gold granulated star; diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Horace Kelley, 1946.259",
        "current_location": "104 Late Antiquity",
        "title": "Button",
        "creation_date": "500s",
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        "culture": [
            "Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 6th century"
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        "department": "Medieval Art",
        "collection": "MED - Byzantine",
        "type": "Jewelry",
        "measurements": "Diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.)",
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                {
                    "description": "<em>Early Christian and Byzantine Art</em>, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (April 24 -June 24, 1947).",
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                "description": "(Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York).",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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        "description": "The decorative technique known as granulation had been used in Etruscan, Greek, and Roman jewelry well before this Byzantine piece was made. Granulation is when tiny spheres or \u201cgranules\u201d are attached to a piece. It can be seen here in in a rock crystal button decorated with a six-pointed star, with a simply set garnet in the center.",
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            "internet_archive": [
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1946.259-button"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cByzantine Jewelry and Associated Pieces.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34, no. 7 (1947).",
                "page_number": "p. 171",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141388"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. <em>Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22</em> [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947.",
                "page_number": "cat. no. 459",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 110-113; Reproduced: p. 111",
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