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"title": "Amulet of Bastet",
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"type": "Amulets",
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"id": 301878,
"title": "Year in Review: 1973",
"description": "Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).",
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"title": "Howard Carter: Before the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb",
"description": "Howard Carter: Before the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb. The British Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 13, 1992-May 31, 1993).",
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"description": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 7-September 8, 1991).",
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"description": "Howard Carter (1874-1939), London, England, gifted to his niece, Phyllis Walker",
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"did_you_know": "This object was in the collection of Howard Carter\u2014the man who discovered the intact tomb of Tutankhamun\u2014until his death.",
"description": "Elegantly seated on a low base, its tail curled around its left side, this tiny cat, sacred animal of the goddess Bastet, is a sculptural tour de force. The front legs are carved entirely in openwork. The base, an amalgam of the hieroglyphs for \"ointment jar\" (also used in the writing the name of the goddess Bastet), and \"protection\" is admirably contoured to the animal's body. On the back is a loop for suspension.",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"
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"citation": "Cooney, John D. \u201cThree Minor Masterpieces of Egyptian Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 1 (1975).",
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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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"citation": "James, T. G. H. Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun. London: Kegan Paul International, 1992.",
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"citation": "\"1992 Annual Report.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 247",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418"
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"citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Boha\u010d. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
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