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"tombstone": "Fragment from a funeral garment or pall, 1649\u20131955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945\u20131055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 21 x 23.5 cm (8 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1968.227",
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"title": "Fragment from a funeral garment or pall",
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"inscription": "'izz wa-iqbal lil-sahib Abi Sa'id Yahya bin Ziyad",
"inscription_translation": "Glory and prosperity to the master Abu Sa'id Yahy\u00e1 bin Ziyad.",
"inscription_remark": "This circular Kufic inscription is around the diaper-patterned center of a smaller pearl-framed medallion.",
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"title": "Year in Review for 1968",
"description": "Year in Review for 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).",
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"description": "An incomplete pearl-bordered roundel frames a diamond containing a pair of confronting peacocks that flank a Tree of Life and stand on a pair of confronting lions or dogs. Interspaces between diamond and border contain a pair of griffins (above) and a floral/vine motif (below). Winged bodies of confronting goats(?) stand on top of roundel and at right is an ornate palmette supported by a griffin. Tangential to the roundel at the upper right is a smaller pearl-framed medallion containing a circular Kufic inscription around a diaper-patterned center.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1968.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 1, 1969, pp. 3\u201350.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 48, no. 124",
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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": "Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"Reevaluating the Date of the \"Buyid\" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis.\" Ars Orientalis 22 (1992): 1\u201341.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 37; Mentioned: p. 15",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629423"
},
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"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 155, fig. 4g; Mentioned: pp. 154\u2013155",
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