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        "tombstone": "Chair or Bed Leg with the God Bes, 1540\u20131296 BCE. Egypt, New Kingdom (1540\u20131069 BCE), Dynasty 18. Tamarisk; overall: 44.7 x 5.9 cm (17 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Guerdon S. Holden Memorial Fund, 1982.42",
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        "title": "Chair or Bed Leg with the God Bes",
        "creation_date": "1540\u20131296 BCE",
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        "collection": "Egypt - New Kingdom",
        "type": "Furniture and woodwork",
        "measurements": "Overall: 44.7 x 5.9 cm (17 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)",
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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"
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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. 3",
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                "description": "Purchased from Nanette Kelekian, New York",
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        "description": "The genial god Bes appears here in the form of a furniture leg. With hands on his pot belly and wearing a short kilt with a long apron, he stands bowlegged on a truncated cone base. He has long, upward sweeping, diagonal eyebrows, large eyes, full cheeks, and rounded ears, and he wears a full beard and mustache. His body is soft and unmuscular. As a household god, Bes figured prominently as a decorative motif both in royal and private dwellings.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1982.42-chair-or-bed-leg-wit"
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                "citation": "\u201cAnnual Report for 1982.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 70, no. 6 (June 1983): 223\u2013270.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 228",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159820"
            },
            {
                "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. 309; Mentioned: p. 308-309",
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