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"tombstone": "Pilgrim's Medallion with Saint Symeon the Younger, c. 1100. Byzantium, Syria, Byzantine period, early 12th Century. Lead; diameter: 5.7 x 0.4 cm (2 1/4 x 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 1972.52.a",
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"title": "Pilgrim's Medallion with Saint Symeon the Younger",
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"id": 301752,
"title": "Year in Review: 1972",
"description": "Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).",
"opening_date": "1973-02-27T05:00:00"
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"title": "The Glory of Byzantium",
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"id": 180667,
"title": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).",
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"description": "Saint Symeon the Younger was a stylite saint, an early Christian ascetic who fled the world for the desert and, perched on a column, spent his days fasting and praying. The site of Symeon\u2019s column attracted many pilgrims during and after his lifetime. Medallions like this one, showing Symeon atop his column, were taken home by pilgrims in commemoration of their visit and were believed to serve their owners as protective talismans.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1972.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3 (1973): 63-115.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p.67",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25093732"
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"citation": "Verdier, Philippe. \"A Medallion of Saint Symeon the Younger.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 1 (1980): 17-26.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 17; Mentioned: p. 17-26",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159656"
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"citation": "Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 385-386; Reproduced: p.385",
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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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