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        "tombstone": "Cosmetic Vessel, c. 1980\u20131901 BCE. Egypt, Middle Kingdom (2040\u20131648 BCE), Dynasty 12. Anhydrite; diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.); overall: 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund, 1982.3",
        "current_location": "107 Egyptian",
        "title": "Cosmetic Vessel",
        "creation_date": "c. 1980\u20131901 BCE",
        "creation_date_earliest": -1980,
        "creation_date_latest": -1901,
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        "culture": [
            "Egypt, Middle Kingdom (2040\u20131648 BCE), Dynasty 12"
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        "technique": "anhydrite",
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        "department": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
        "collection": "Egypt - Middle Kingdom",
        "type": "Vessels",
        "measurements": "Diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.); Overall: 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "diameter": {
                "width": 0.07,
                "width_inch": 2,
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 309644,
                    "title": "The Year in Review for 1982",
                    "description": "<i>The Year in Review for 1982</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).",
                    "opening_date": "1983-01-05T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 521173,
                    "title": "Egyptomania: Fashion\u2019s Conflicted Obsession",
                    "description": "<i>Egyptomania: Fashion\u2019s Conflicted Obsession</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024).",
                    "opening_date": "2023-04-01T04:00:00"
                }
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                {
                    "description": "CMA, 5 January-6 February 1983, The Year in Review for 1982, cat.: CMA Bulletin 70, no. 1 (January 1983), no. 5, illus. p. 6",
                    "opening_date": "1983-01-05T00:00:00"
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Formerly in the collection of John G. Ross (purchased 1952 in Cairo; on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the 1960s); sold: New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet. Purchased from James Freeman, Kyoto",
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        "description": "Cosmetic vessels would have once contained scented oils or ointments used for beautifying the body, while kohl containers held the eye paint seen in many depictions of ancient Egyptians. Galena, a mineral used in eye paint, helped reflect the sun and repelled insects and tiny organisms that could cause eye disease and blindness. Cosmetics were an essential element of daily life and associated with upholding the ancient Egyptians\u2019 high standards of cleanliness.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60756821"
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1982.3-cosmetic-vessel"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cYear in Review for 1982.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3\u201355. <br>Published as <em>King's Offering Jar.</em>",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 6, no. 5; mentioned: p. 50, no. 5",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. \u201cEgyptian Stone Vessels in Cleveland.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 327\u2013339.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 330-331, fig. 10",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159955"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Boha\u010d.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 162, color p. 50; Mentioned: p. 162-163",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 07:47:30.285000"
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