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"title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106",
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"title": "Coptic Rotation",
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"description": "(Jean-Loup Despras, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art).",
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"date": "?\u20131982",
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"did_you_know": "The two peacocks in the upper half of this composition represent immortality. Ancient Greeks and Romans believed that the body of the peacock did not decay after death and when this imagery was adopted by Christianity, the bird came to be associated with resurrection.",
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"description": "This rare surviving hanging with Christian symbols likely served as a wall decoration in a church or a home. The three men who stand beneath an arch may represent the three Hebrews who refused to worship a golden idol, and when cast into the fiery furnace, remained unharmed due to God\u2019s deliverance (Daniel 3:19\u201330). Above them is a Christogram formed by the first two letters of Christ\u2019s name in Greek, X (chi) and P (rho), flanked by the letters for alpha and omega. Beneath the arch, an ankh, an ancient Egyptian symbol of life, is framed by two birds. Another Christogram appears above the arch between two peacocks. The significance of the combined use of these images and symbols lies in their invocation of Christ\u2019s redemptive and life-giving power.",
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"citation": "Sa\u0301nchez Galera, Jose\u0301 Mari\u0301a, and Gregorio Luri Medrano. La edad de las nueces: los nin\u0303os en el Imperio Romano. Madrid: Ediciones Encuentro S.A., 2021.",
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