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        "tombstone": "Double-Faced Crossbar from a Railing: Female Figure (verso), c. 150 BCE. India, Madhya Pradesh, Bharhut, Shunga period. Plum-colored sandstone; overall: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1982.44.b",
        "current_location": "242A Ancient India",
        "title": "Double-Faced Crossbar from a Railing: Female Figure (verso)",
        "creation_date": "c. 150 BCE",
        "creation_date_earliest": -187,
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        "department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
        "collection": "Indian Art - Sunga, Bharhut",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.)",
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            {
                "inscription": "Inscribed on recto: \"Mitasa suchi danam\"",
                "inscription_translation": "This crossbar is the gift of Mitra.",
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                {
                    "description": "<em>The Sensuous Immortals</em>. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (October 25, 1977\u2013January 15, 1978); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (March 9\u2013April  1978); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (May 26\u2013July 30, 1978); Nelson Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, MO (September 15\u2013October 29, 1978).",
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                "description": "The Pan-Asian Collection, New York, NY",
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                "description": "(Robert H. Ellsworth [1929\u20132014], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "date": "?\u20131982",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1982\u2013",
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        "description": "The bust of a female figure in the center of the lotus medallion grasps a cluster of round flowers, probably <em>kadamba</em>, in her right hand. An embroidered coif crisscrosses over her head, and a lotus-shaped medallion ornaments her brow. Like a yakshi, or nature divinity, she embodies life-giving forces of nature.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1982.44.b-double-faced-crossba"
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        },
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            {
                "citation": "Pal, Pratapaditya.<em> The Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan-Asian Collection.</em> Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 1",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"Year in Review for 1982.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 70, no. 1 (1983): 3-55.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 99, pp. 26 and 53; Reproduced: no. 99, p. 27",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Clarke, Victoria. <em>Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom.</em> London; New York : Phaidon Press Limited, 2020.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 274",
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