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        "tombstone": "Tablet from Set 3, from the series Les Septs Stations\nC\u00e9lestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations), 2018. Rachid Kora\u00efchi (Algerian, b. 1947). Alabaster; overall: 49.5 x 49.5 x 3.2 cm (19 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 2020.220.b",
        "current_location": "108A African",
        "title": "Tablet from Set 3, from the series Les Septs Stations\nC\u00e9lestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations)",
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        "department": "African Art",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 49.5 x 49.5 x 3.2 cm (19 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)",
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                    "title": "Arts of Africa",
                    "description": "<i>Arts of Africa</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 10, 2021-July 2, 2023).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-12-09T05:00:00"
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        "did_you_know": "Blending historical and high-tech art-making techniques, these tablets\u2019 designs were first drawn, then carved with a digital router.",
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        "description": "The paired alabaster tablets of <em>Les Septs Stations C\u00e9lestes </em>contrast Arabic calligraphy (right) with Rachid Kora\u00efchi\u2019s unique visual language and drawings (left). Over many decades, Kora\u00efchi has developed a personal \u201calphabet of memory,\u201d blending Chinese, Sumerian, Hebrew, Tamazight (Amazigh), Tifinagh (Tuareg), and Arabic letterforms or symbols with numbers, codes, and drawings. These digitally sculpted tablets evoke historical Islamic architecture, especially Egypt\u2019s gleaming \u201cAlabaster Mosque\u201d in Cairo, made from the same semiopaque stone. This set features excerpts from Lebanese-American writer and painter Kahlil Gibran (1883\u20131931) on the subject of love. The word <em>love </em>repeats throughout, emphasizing its centrality.",
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                "citation": "Aicon Gallery. <em>Rachid Kora\u00efchi: Les Sept Stations C\u00e9leste</em>. New York, NY: Aicon Gallery, 2020.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced:  pp. 14-15.",
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        "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
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            "Tablet from Set 3 from the series Les Septs Stations C\u00e9lestes"
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