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"tombstone": "Tomb Cover, 1640\u20131950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945\u20131055). Compound tabby; silk; overall: 210.2 x 102.5 cm (82 3/4 x 40 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1954.780",
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"title": "Tomb Cover",
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"collection": "T - Islamic",
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"measurements": "Overall: 210.2 x 102.5 cm (82 3/4 x 40 3/8 in.)",
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{
"inscription": "Maghfirah min al-Rahman al-Rahim lil-'abd al-'asi 'Ali bin Muhammad bin Shahrazad bin Rastawayh al-Isbahani",
"inscription_translation": "Forgiveness [be] from the Merciful, the Compassionate to the disobedient servant 'Ali bin Muhammad bin Shahrazad bin Rastawayh al-Isbaha-ni.",
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"sortorder": null
},
{
"inscription": "Allahumma bayyid wajhi yawm taswaddu fihi al-wujuh wa-la'alla-ni [or la'alli] tujilluni yawm al-'ar",
"inscription_translation": "Oh God, whiten my face on the day when faces are blackened, and perhaps Thou wilt honor me on the day of dishonor.",
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
},
{
"inscription": "Allahumma thabbit qalbi 'al\u00e1 dinaka bi-haqq Muhammad wa-alihi",
"inscription_translation": "Oh God, fix my heart firmly in Thy religion by virtue of Muhammad and his family.",
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
},
{
"inscription": "Allahumma inni awda'tuka bi-qalbi hadha al-iqrar bika wa-bi-al-nabi Muhammad sall\u00e1 Allah 'alayhi wa-alihi wa-al-a'immah 'alayhim al-salam wa-anta khayr mustawda' tarid 'al\u00e1 waqt su'al Munkir wa-Nakir bi-rahmatika ya arham al-rahimin",
"inscription_translation": "Oh God, I have deposited with Thee my heart. This is the recognition of Thee and of the Prophet Muhammad (God bless him and his family) and the imams (upon them be peace). For Thou art the best repository; Thou arrivest, at the time of the questioning by Munkir and Nakir, with Thy mercy, Oh most Merciful of the Merciful.",
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
},
{
"inscription": "Allahumma a'tini kitabi bi-yamini wa-hasibni hisaban yasiran",
"inscription_translation": "Oh, God, give me my book in my right hand and give me an easy reckoning.",
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
},
{
"inscription": "Allahumma la tu'tini kitabi bi-shimali wa-la taj'alha maghlulah il\u00e1 'unuqi",
"inscription_translation": "Oh God, do not give me my book in my left hand, and do not cause it to be chained around my neck.",
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
},
{
"inscription": "Allahumma thabbit qadami 'al\u00e1 al-sirat",
"inscription_translation": "Oh God, fix my feet firmly on the road.",
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
},
{
"inscription": "yawm tazill fihi al-aqdam",
"inscription_translation": "on the day when feet slip on it.",
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
}
],
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"current": [
{
"id": 518751,
"title": "The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran",
"description": "The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran. Petit Palais, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (organizer) (October 19, 1961-January 31, 1962).",
"opening_date": "1961-10-19T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 455362,
"title": "Arts of Islam",
"description": "Arts of Islam. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (April 8-July 4, 1976).",
"opening_date": "1976-04-08T05:00:00"
}
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"legacy": [
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"description": "Sept mille ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October 1-December 31, 1961).",
"opening_date": "1961-10-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "The Arts of Islam. The Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (April 8-July 4, 1976).",
"opening_date": "1976-04-08T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "The Heritage of Islam. Houston, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC (March 10, 1982-September 5, 1983).",
"opening_date": "1982-03-10T00:00:00"
}
]
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"description": "Originally reported as having been found in Bibi Shahr Banu, near Rayy, Iran",
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"date": null,
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{
"description": "(Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "?-1954",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"date": "1954-",
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"description": "This complete loom piece was woven to cover a human corpse: at the top, a circle to cover the head; below, a long tapering shape for the body. The only decoration on the dark brown ground consists of Kufic inscriptions reserved in beige on bands. The text which was undoubtedly composed for the decoration of a funeral pall gives the name of the deceased in the circle around the top. Other inscriptions refer to the part of the body over which the decoration lies.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 676",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n124"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 215",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n239"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 215",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n239"
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"citation": "Jones, Dalu and George Michell. The Arts of Islam: Hayward Gallery, 8 April-4 July 1976. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 7, p. 76",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 272",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n292"
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"citation": "Thomson, Nancy. The Heritage of Islam: Notes. London: PCET, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 32, p. 50",
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"citation": "Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"Reevaluating the Date of the \"Buyid\" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis.\" Ars Orientalis 22 (1992): 1-41.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 35; Mentioned: p. 15",
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"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 154, fig. 4c; Mentioned: P. 154-155",
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