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"title": "Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man",
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"description": "according to William Wixom, an unconfirmed report tells us that the entire group (1965.237-1965.247) was found in a single, huge pithos or jar. (J. J. Klejman, New York).",
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"description": "Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man, 280\u201390 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 33.4 x 21 x 11.5 cm (13 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1965.242",
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"description": "Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman, 280\u201390 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 33.4 x 18.5 x 10.7 cm (13 1/8 x 7 5/16 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1965.243",
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"description": "Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman, 280\u201390 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 31.5 x 19 x 10.8 cm (12 3/8 x 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1965.244",
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"description": "Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman, 280\u201390 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 33.2 x 20 x 14 cm (13 1/16 x 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1965.246",
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"description": "Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man, 280\u201390 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 33.5 x 20.1 x 10 cm (13 3/16 x 7 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1965.247",
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"description": "These three pairs of marble portrait busts depict an aristocratic Roman couple. They are unique in representing the same couple three times with only minor variations in costume. Allegedly found together with the Jonah Marbles, they may represent the Christian patrons who commissioned the Jonah cycle.",
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"citation": "McColl, Donald Alexander. Early Christian Sculptures at Cleveland in Their Eastern Mediterranean Context. 1991.",
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"citation": "Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Margaret English Frazer, and Kurt Weitzmann. Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art Third to Seventh Century. New York: The Museum, 1977.",
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"citation": "Kitzinger, Ernst. 1978. \"The Cleveland Marbles\". I Monumenti Cristiani Preconstantiniani. 653-675.",
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"citation": "\u201cEarly Christian Sculptures at Cleveland.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 3 (March 1967): 67\u201388.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 67, 73, Reproduced: p. 66, 70, figs. 4, 9, 13",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152146"
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"citation": "Lehman, Karen M. \" Sacred and Profane Hellenizing Marbles of the Late Third Century Roman Empire: Secular Portraits and Religious Narrative Sculptures in the Cleveland Museum of Art Reviewed in the Cultural Context.\" M.A. thesis, Kent State University, 2004.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. iv; Reproduced: p.86",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
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"citation": "Bol, Peter, Carola Reinsberg, Renate Bol, D. Kreikenbom, Hans-Ulrich Cain, Heike Richter, and Britta O\u0308zen-Kleine. Plastik der ro\u0308mischen Kaiserzeit vom Regierungsantritt des Antoninus Pius bis zum Ende der Antike. Worms : Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 2019.",
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"citation": "Hornik, Heidi J. \"Interpreting Select Early Sculptures Using Art-Historical Methodology.\" In Early Christians and Their Art, edited by Mikeal C. Parsons and Robin M. Jensen, 1-24. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023.",
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