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"title": "Alexander the Great on Horseback",
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"title": "Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club",
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"title": "Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries",
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"id": 437416,
"title": "Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation",
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"description": "Featuring imperial Byzantine themes, this rare roundel originally decorated a tunic. Genii (guardian spirits) crown the mounted horseman in military dress while an animal runs below. The inscription at the top identifies the horseman as Alexander the Great (356-323 bc), a popular cult figure in Egypt for centuries. The pattern\u2019s mirror-image symmetry indicates the influence of costlier Byzantine silks.",
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"citation": "S. E. L. \"Year in Review.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 10 (1959): 210-31.",
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"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25142366."
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"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \"Alexander: The Victorious Emperor.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 8 (1971): 244-50.",
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"citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984.",
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \u201cThe Twain Shall Meet.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326\u2013359.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 329, fig. 5",
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