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        "tombstone": "Fragments, before 1968. Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037\u20131194). Silk: lampas weave; average: 49 x 33 cm (19 5/16 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1968.223",
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            {
                "inscription": "fa-idha al-na'imu wa-kullu ma yulha bihi/ \nyawm (an in superscript) yasiru il\u00e1 bil\u00e1 wa-nafadi",
                "inscription_translation": "For lo, that which is pleasant, and everything that is enjoyed, eventually ends in decay and disappearance.",
                "inscription_remark": "The inscription is from verse of al-Aswad bin Ya'fur al-Nahshali, which is found in \"al-Mufddaliyat.\"",
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                    "id": 301285,
                    "title": "Year in Review for 1968",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review for 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).",
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                "description": "(Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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        "description": "Geometric medallions aligned on a diaper ground are enclosed in a grid of large and small lozenges. Medallions contain confronting peacocks flanking a Tree of Life. The double border has an inner frieze of running animals and an outer band of Kufic inscription. The larger diamonds contain four-directional palmette trees and two opposed pairs of rampant animals. The smaller diamonds have pairs of peacocks in each corner framing an octagon, which contains two opposed pairs of animals flanking a central lozenge. Floral vines and ornaments fill the interspaces of large and small diamonds.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1968.223-fragments"
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                "citation": "\u201cAnnual Report for 1968.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 6, 1969, pp. 209\u2013248.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 225",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152279"
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            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 273",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n293"
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