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"tombstone": "Monkey-Shaped Aryballos (Oil Vessel), c. 580 BCE. East Greek, probably Milesian. Ceramic; diameter of mouth: 2 cm (13/16 in.); overall: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); diameter of base: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Dr. Leo Mildenberg in honor of Arielle P. Kozloff, 1991.50",
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"title": "Monkey-Shaped Aryballos (Oil Vessel)",
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"department": "Greek and Roman Art",
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"measurements": "Diameter of mouth: 2 cm (13/16 in.); Overall: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); Diameter of base: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.)",
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"title": "Notable Acquisitions",
"description": "Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).",
"opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"
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"title": "Aus Noah Arche - antike Tierbilder der Sammlung Mildenberg",
"description": "Aus Noah Arche - antike Tierbilder der Sammlung Mildenberg. Pr\u00e4historische Staatssammlung, Museum f\u00fcr Vor- und Fr\u00fchgeschichte, Munich (October 10, 1996-January 12, 1997).",
"opening_date": "1996-10-10T00:00:00"
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"description": "Classical Art from a New York Collection, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (27 September-16 November 1977).",
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"description": "Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (21 October-29 November 1981).",
"opening_date": "1981-10-21T00:00:00"
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"description": "Tierbilder aus vier Jahrtausenden aus der Sammlung Mildenberg, Antikenmuseum Berlin, (26 March-5 June 1983); Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel, (1 July-25 September 1983); Museum f\u00fcr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, (January-April 1984); Pr\u00e4historische Staatsammlung, Munich, (May-July 1984); Museum f\u00fcr Vor- und Fr\u00fchgeschichte, Freiburg, (1984).",
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"description": "Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Archaeological (Rockefeller) Museum, Jerusalem (Autumn 1986-May 1987).",
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"did_you_know": "An aryballos is a small jar for scented oils and perfumes.",
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"description": "Perfume flasks in the form of a monkey are numerous, but few are as well made and preserved as this one. The flask was worn suspended from the wrist by a cord. Its owner would take it to the communal baths and anoint himself with its contents afterward. Such flasks have been found throughout the Mediterranean and Egypt, but this vessel was likely made at a Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor.",
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"citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.",
"page_number": "BAPD 1002947",
"url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/7C0ED709-65E4-4789-B068-F0286ACDFCCC"
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"citation": "Ducat, Jean. Les Vases plastiques rhodiens archai\u0308ques en terre cuite. Paris: F., de Boccard, 1966.",
"page_number": "p. 122, no. C-2",
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"citation": "Andre\u0301 Emmerich Gallery. Classical Art from a New York Collection: An Exhibition of Ancient Bronzes, Figurative Plastic Vases and Other Ancient Works of Art, Organized in Cooperation with Mu\u0308nzen Und Medaillen AG, Basle, Switzerland, September 27-November 16, 1977. New York: Andre\u0301 Emmerich Gallery, 1977.",
"page_number": "no. 13",
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"citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P., and Leo Mildenberg. Animals in Ancient Art: From the Leo Mildenberg Collection. Cleveland (Ohio): Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.",
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"citation": "Gehrig, Ulrich. Tierbilder aus vier Jahrtausenden: Antiken aus Sammlung Mildenberg. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1983.",
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"citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Michel Sguaitamatti. More Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1986.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H., Alan Chong, Henry Hawley, Jane Glaubinger, Tom E. Hinson, Henry John Drewal, Margaret Young-S\u00e1nchez, Stanislaw J. Czuma, J. Keith Wilson, Michael R. Cunningham, Lawrence M. Berman, Ariell\u00e9 P. Kozloff, Renate Eikelmann, Michael J. Miller, Anne E. Wardwell, and Bruce Robertson. \"Notable Acquisitions.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991)",
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"citation": "Zahlhaas, Gisela. Aus Noahs Arche: Tierbilder der Sammlung Mildenberg aus fu\u0308nf Jahrtausenden. Mu\u0308nchen: P. von Zabern, 1996.",
"page_number": "no. 62, p. 80, no. 138, p. 177",
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"citation": "Mottahedeh, Patricia Erhart, and Gisela Zahlhaas. Out of Noah's Ark: Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenburg Collection. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1997.",
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
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