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"tombstone": "Mirror Support: Siren, c. 475 BCE. Greece, Corinth, presumably of Corinthian or Argive origin. Bronze with silver inlays; overall: 11.5 x 9 cm (4 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1967.204",
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"title": "Mirror Support: Siren",
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"type": "Sculpture",
"measurements": "Overall: 11.5 x 9 cm (4 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.)",
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{
"id": 301129,
"title": "Year in Review: 1967",
"description": "Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).",
"opening_date": "1967-11-29T05:00:00"
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"title": "Mirrors: Art and Symbol",
"description": "Mirrors: Art and Symbol. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).",
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"did_you_know": "This elaborate siren served a practical function, connecting a separately made handle and mirror, now lost.",
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"description": "This is a bronze of exceptional quality. When complete, it had a cylindrical handle, probably of painted ivory. The reflecting disk was probably of silver, as are the inlays. The intact mirror was obviously an object of great luxury. Sirens (part bird and part woman) were sea-songstresses whose captivating voices drew sailors off course to their deaths. Sirens also accompanied the dead on their voyage to the underworld. The idea was probably imported from Egypt where human-headed ba birds embodied a deceased person's spirit.",
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"citation": "\u201cYear in Review.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (December 1967): 302\u2013346.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 302; Mentioned: p. 342, no. 2a",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152183"
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"citation": "Cooney, John D. \u201cSiren and Ba, Birds of a Feather.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 8 (October 1968): 262\u2013271.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.262-263, figs. 1-2",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152230"
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 22",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n44"
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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.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n44"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24"
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