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        "tombstone": "Necklace Bead and Pair of Pendants in the Shape of an Auspicious Symbol, c. 150 BCE. India, Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh, Shunga period (185\u201378 BCE). Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1973.66",
        "current_location": "242A Ancient India",
        "title": "Necklace Bead and Pair of Pendants in the Shape of an Auspicious Symbol",
        "creation_date": "c. 150 BCE",
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        "department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
        "collection": "Indian Art - Sunga",
        "type": "Jewelry",
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                {
                    "id": 304413,
                    "title": "Science within Art",
                    "description": "<i>Science within Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-April 20, 1980).",
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                "description": "(William H. Wolff [1906-1991], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "date": "?-1973",
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        "description": "These exceptionally fine pieces of gold jewelry would have been strung on a necklace. The auspicious symbols on either side of the egg-shaped bead are in the form of full blown lotus flowers with the seed pods carefully detailed, and trident-shaped forms decorated with stylized palmette motifs emanate down from the lotuses.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1973.66-necklace-bead-and-pa"
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            {
                "citation": "\"The Year in Review for 1973.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 180, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 180, p. 58",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"
            },
            {
                "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. 286",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n306"
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            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 11",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n26"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 110\u2013111",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Sengupta, Arputha Rani. <em>Buddhist Jewels in Mortuary Cult: Magic Symbols. </em>Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2019.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: Vol. 1, P. 28, fig. 1.46; Vol. 2, P. 520, fig. a; Mentioned: Vol. 1, P. 25",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Guy, John. <em>Tree &amp; Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India. </em>Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 58",
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        "date_text": "c. 150 BCE",
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