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"title": "Votive Pin with Decorated Disc",
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"title": "Year in Review (1963)",
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"description": "A complex mythological scene unfolds on the decorative disc of this silver pin. On the top register, two bearded figures carrying palm fronds and a bird extend a frond to a seated lion-headed man. Below, two figures holding fronds approach a man riding a bull. Two animal-headed beings flank the registers and perhaps hold banners in their hands. A pattern of stylized lotus buds and blossoms decorates the disk\u2019s rim. The scene may represent a Mesopotamian or Iranian myth. The pin was made with the repouss\u00e9 technique by hammering designs into the back.",
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