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        "tombstone": "Fragment with Inscription, dated 818 (AH 203), but before 1978. Iraq, Basrah, in the style of the Abbasid period (750\u20131258). Silk: compound twill weave; overall: 64.7 x 27.5 cm (25 1/2 x 10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, 1978.173",
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        "title": "Fragment with Inscription",
        "creation_date": "dated 818 (AH 203), but before 1978",
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        "department": "Textiles",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 64.7 x 27.5 cm (25 1/2 x 10 13/16 in.)",
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        "inscriptions": [
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                "inscription": "Barakah min Allah li-Aba [sic for Abi] Nasr Iyas al-Fazari a'azzahu Allah.  Sana'ahu bi-Basrah fi sanati thalath wa-ma'it[ay]n",
                "inscription_translation": "Blessing from God to Abu Nasr Iyas al-Fazari, may God exalt him. He made it in Basrah in the year three and two hundr[e]d.",
                "inscription_remark": "Arabic inscription beneath each scene.",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 304286,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1978",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).",
                    "opening_date": "1979-02-13T05:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "<em>The Twain Shall Meet.</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).",
                    "opening_date": "1985-10-30T00:00:00"
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            {
                "description": "E. N. Amini, Tehran, Iran, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?-1978",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1978-",
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            {
                "id": 150751,
                "description": "Fragment with Inscription, dated 818 (AH 203), but before 1978. Iraq, Basrah, in the style of the Abbasid period (750\u20131258). Silk: compound weave; overall: 66.5 x 45 cm (26 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1982.17",
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        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "An archer kneels by a hill to shoot at pair of deer to right of a tree. The polychrome design is repeated across horizontal rows on dark brown ground. <br><br>The Near East played an important role in the development of textile arts of both the East and West in the early Middle Ages. Sasanian textiles had an impact on both Tang China and Byzantium, and Chinese silks in turn influenced early Islamic textiles.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79930451"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \u201cThe Twain Shall Meet.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326\u2013359.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 349, fig. 45",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914"
            }
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.173",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Anonymous Gift",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
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        "date_text": "dated 818 (AH 203), but before 1978",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 07:41:08.319000"
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