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        "tombstone": "Lower Section of a Tunic, 400s CE. Egypt, Byzantine period. Undyed linen and dyed wool: tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping; overall: 54.9 x 106.7 cm (21 5/8 x 42 in.); mounted: 67.3 x 118.1 cm (26 1/2 x 46 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward, 1993.177",
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        "title": "Lower Section of a Tunic",
        "creation_date": "400s CE",
        "creation_date_earliest": 400,
        "creation_date_latest": 499,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
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        "technique": "Undyed linen and dyed wool: tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Textiles",
        "collection": "T - Coptic",
        "type": "Textile",
        "measurements": "Overall: 54.9 x 106.7 cm (21 5/8 x 42 in.); Mounted: 67.3 x 118.1 cm (26 1/2 x 46 1/2 in.)",
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                "height": 0.549,
                "height_inch": 21,
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                "width": 1.067,
                "width_inch": 42,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.0
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 383006,
                    "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106",
                    "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 4, 2011-May 21, 2012).",
                    "opening_date": "2011-04-04T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 343673,
                    "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106",
                    "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 23, 2017-May 14, 2018).",
                    "opening_date": "2017-05-23T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 539451,
                    "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106",
                    "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 13, 2023-November 10, 2024).",
                    "opening_date": "2023-11-13T05:00:00"
                }
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            {
                "description": "(Ascher, Paris, France, sold to Mr. William E. Ward)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "-1975",
                "sortorder": 1
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            {
                "description": "Mr. William E. Ward (1922\u20132004). Solon, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1975-1993",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1993-",
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        "did_you_know": "Long wide tunics were the most common garments of this time period.",
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        "description": "This is the bottom section of a well-woven wool unisex tunic. Various stylized roundels with animals and baskets decorate the hem that extends into round finials with birds. The interior two square panels complete the design. Extra wefts, or horizontal threads, enrich the animals and the deep blue ground, probably a failed purple dye. While the robe itself is created from linen, the fringes at the bottom are made from wool.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1993.177-lower-section-of-a-t"
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            {
                "citation": "\u201c1993 Annual Report.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (1994).",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 167",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 08:10:17.950000"
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