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        "title": "Marsh Scene with Cat and Birds",
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                    "id": 301477,
                    "title": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.",
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                "description": "Thebes, Asasif, tomb of Mentuemhat (no. 34), second court. Purchased from Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris",
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        "description": "In a great papyrus swamp a civet cat attacks a bird's nest. Above are a hoopoe bird and a crane. Probably the mongoose was shown at the left attacking another nest. The scene is essentially copied from Old Kingdom work, but some details show New Kingdom influence.",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions Press Release,\u201d January 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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                "citation": "Wunderlich, Silvia A. \u201cA Group of Egyptian Reliefs of the Sa\u00efte Period.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 39, no. 3 (March 1952): 44\u201350.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 45-46; Reproduced: p. 48",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141777"
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                "citation": "Cooney, John D. \u201cPharaoh\u2019s Rat.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 52, no. 8 (October 1965): 101\u2013105.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 104, fig. 3",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152063"
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                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 16",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n36"
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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. 411; Mentioned: p. 412",
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