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        "tombstone": "Spearing Fish, c. 667\u2013647 BCE. Egypt, Late period (715\u2013332 BCE), Dynasties 25\u201326. Limestone; overall: 26.4 x 25.8 cm (10 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1949.499",
        "current_location": "107 Egyptian",
        "title": "Spearing Fish",
        "creation_date": "c. 667\u2013647 BCE",
        "creation_date_earliest": -667,
        "creation_date_latest": -647,
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        "culture": [
            "Egypt, Late period (715\u2013332 BCE), Dynasties 25\u201326"
        ],
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        "department": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
        "collection": "Egypt - Late Period",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 26.4 x 25.8 cm (10 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)",
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        "inscriptions": [],
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301477,
                    "title": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.",
                    "description": "<i>In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).",
                    "opening_date": "1958-03-04T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "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"
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                {
                    "description": "CMA 1981b, no. 32",
                    "opening_date": "1981-01-01T00:00:00"
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                "description": "Thebes, Asasif, tomb of Mentuemhat (no. 34), second court, west wall. Purchased from Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris (Mallon 189)",
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        "description": "The spearing of fish against a conventionalized background of water--a classic subject of the painted reliefs found in tombs of the Pyramid Age. The papyrus thicket shown in the background is represented growing in perfect symmetry quite unlike the tangled riot of vegetation typical of the growing plant. Probably an exact copy of a detail of Dynasty V at Saqqara. It is likely that this relief comes from the same composition as 1949.498.",
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            ],
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1949.499-spearing-fish"
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisition Press Release,\u201d January 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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                "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr0032"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Wunderlich, Silvia. \"A Group of Egyptian Reliefs of the Sa\u00efte Period.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>39, no. 3 (March 1952): 44-47, 49-50.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 44",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141777"
            },
            {
                "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. 14-15",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n17"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Kathman, Barbara A. <em>A Cleveland Bestiary</em>. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 38; Mentioned: p. 39, p.62",
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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 and Mentioned: p. 413",
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