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        "tombstone": "Running Animals Belt, c. 1000 BCE. Caucasus, Russia or Turkey, Koban culture. Bronze, hammered and incised; overall: 7.6 x 67.6 x 1.2 cm (3 x 26 5/8 x 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, In honor of Kathleen B. Sherwin, 1988.71",
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        "title": "Running Animals Belt",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 7.6 x 67.6 x 1.2 cm (3 x 26 5/8 x 1/2 in.)",
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                {
                    "id": 310246,
                    "title": "The Year in Review for 1988",
                    "description": "<i>The Year in Review for 1988</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).",
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        "did_you_know": "The Scythians arose from nomadic tribes that wandered from the steppes to eastern Europe; the greatest numbers of finds related to them have come from the areas around the Black Sea.",
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        "description": "The design is one of running and leaping animals \"drawn\" with an elegance, vigor, and power reminiscent of those cultures who have lived most closely with wild animals and therefore appreciated them best, such as, for one example, the Neolithic cave painters of Lascaux. The animal figures on the belt are not actually drawn, but are punched with an extremely fine punch tool in very carefully planned lines that actually look as though they are drawn. This was a technique used in about 1000 BC.",
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                "citation": "\u201cThe Year in Review for 1988.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30\u201375.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 48; Mentioned: p. 68, no. 7",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061"
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            {
                "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle, and Nino Urushadze. \"Animal Style Bronze Art and Its Closest Parallels: A Bronze Belt and Axe Head.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 5 (1994): 118-39.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 118-39",
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