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"inscription": "Two horizontal ornamental motifs at center may be derived from Arabic baraka (blessing), written retrograde.",
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"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \u201cBacchantes in Islam.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 3 (March 1960): 43\u201349.",
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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.",
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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. 266",
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
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