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"title": "Year in Review: 1977",
"description": "Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).",
"opening_date": "1977-12-28T05:00:00"
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"title": "Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation",
"description": "Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 12, 2000-October 25, 2001).",
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"description": "Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11, 2000-October 21, 2001).",
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"description": "Gallery 105 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 20, 2010-June 13, 2011).",
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"description": "said to have been found in a tomb in the Caucasus in the late 19th century",
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"description": "This fragment is one of several that may have come from a tomb in the Caucasus (the region between the Black and Caspian seas). The design displays rows of eight-pointed stars, here with a rooster on a blue ground, alternating with striped pointed crosses.",
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"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G.. \u201cMedieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy (A refutation of the Riggisberg report).\u201d Bulletin de liaison du CIETA (Lyon), no. 39-40 (1974) pp. 1\u2013239.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1977.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 1 (January 1978): 2\u201342.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 42, no. 123",
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