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        "tombstone": "Stela Fragment, 600\u2013950. Mexico, Veracruz?, 600-950 AD. Limestone; overall: 31.8 x 30.8 x 12.2 cm (12 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 4 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1959.334.a",
        "current_location": "233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region",
        "title": "Stela Fragment",
        "creation_date": "600\u2013950",
        "creation_date_earliest": 600,
        "creation_date_latest": 950,
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        "department": "Art of the Americas",
        "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 31.8 x 30.8 x 12.2 cm (12 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 4 13/16 in.)",
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 335423,
                    "title": "The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America",
                    "description": "<i>The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America</i>. The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (organizer) (April 12-May 31, 1970).",
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                    "description": "Norfolk, VA: Norfolk Museum of Arts &amp; Sciences; April 12- May 31, 1970. \"The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America.\"",
                    "opening_date": "1970-04-12T00:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 1985. \" Year in Review, 1984.\"",
                    "opening_date": "1984-01-01T00:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 4 - November 29, 1992. \"The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.\" CMA Bulletin 79 (September, 1992). cat. no. 97, p. 273, repr. fig. 97, p. 259.",
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                "description": "(Black Tulip Galleries, Inc., Dallas, TX, 1959, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener)",
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                "description": "James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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        "did_you_know": "The skeletal being resembles a low-relief stucco death figure on the wall of Tomb 1 in Zaachila.",
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        "description": "Figures appear on two sides of this fragmentary stela (upright stone slab carved in relief). One seems to represent a grimacing warrior who brandishes a club; arrow-like darts festoon his belt and hair. On the other side is a skeleton with one fleshed hand, perhaps a sacrificed captive. The eagle with a leaf in its mouth is a hieroglyph that may identify the captive's name.",
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