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        "tombstone": "Plate with Supernatural Being, 900\u2013600 BCE. Central Andes, north coast, probably Jequetepeque Valley, Cupisnique people. Stone (probably steatite [soapstone]); overall: 4 x 16.4 cm (1 9/16 x 6 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2021.131",
        "current_location": "232 Andean",
        "title": "Plate with Supernatural Being",
        "creation_date": "900\u2013600 BCE",
        "creation_date_earliest": -900,
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            "Central Andes, north coast, probably Jequetepeque Valley, Cupisnique people"
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        "technique": "stone (probably steatite [soapstone])",
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        "department": "Art of the Americas",
        "collection": "AA - Andes",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 4 x 16.4 cm (1 9/16 x 6 7/16 in.)",
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                "height": 0.04,
                "height_inch": 1,
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        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Margrith Brenner, Zurich, Switzerland, sold to Private Collector",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "Before the late 1960s-1997",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "Private Collector, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "1997-2021",
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                "date": "2021-",
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        "did_you_know": "The supernatural figure on this small plate may be an apotheosis of the life-death cycle.",
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        "description": "This plate is carved with a feline supernatural sacrificer who holds a severed human head in its clawed paws. The diagonal clusters of plant foliage at the figure\u2019s shoulders and hips imply that death is tied to the earth\u2019s fertility, one being a precondition for the other. The figure, therefore, may be an apotheosis of the life-death cycle.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2021.131-plate-with-supernatu"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Bergh, Susan E. \"'The Art of Those Who Lived Here Before the White Man Came': Collecting the Ancient Americas at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In <em>Collecting the \u201cOther Americas\u201d: Ancient Americas Collections in American Art Museums, </em>edited by Victoria I. Lyall, and Ellen Hoobler, 67- 82. Denver, Colorado: Mayer Center for Ancient and Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, 2025.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 78, fig. 18",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 09:01:02.429000"
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