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 "slug": "met-elephant-clock-575123",
 "label": {
  "ar": "ساعة الفيل، الورقة 57.51.23 — متحف المتروبوليتان",
  "en": "The Elephant Clock, folio 57.51.23 — Metropolitan Museum of Art",
  "ur": "ہاتھی کی گھڑی، ورق 57.51.23 — میٹروپولیٹن میوزیم"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "سجل ورقة مؤرخة 715هـ/1315م بخط فروخ بن عبد اللطيف من كتاب الجزري، مع وصف الحركة كل نصف ساعة ومقالة فهرسة لفرانشيسكا ليوني.",
  "en": "Catalogue of a folio dated 715 AH/1315 CE, copied by Farrukh ibn Abd al-Latif from al-Jazari's book, with the half-hour sequence and a catalogue essay by Francesca Leoni.",
  "ur": "فروخ بن عبد اللطیف کے لکھے جزری کی کتاب کے 715ھ/1315ء کے ورق کا اندراج؛ نصف گھنٹے کی حرکت اور فرانچیسکا لیونی کا فہرستی مضمون شامل۔"
 },
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 "regions": [],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "secondary",
  "type": "web",
  "title": "\"The Elephant Clock\", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Metropolitan Museum of Art"
   }
  ],
  "publisher": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art Department, accession 57.51.23",
  "URL": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451402",
  "language": "en",
  "open_access": true,
  "reliability_note": "Overview, object metadata and Catalogue Entry tab read in the browser on 2026-11-06 after direct fetch returned 429. Leoni's entry credits the 1315 copy, identifies the earlier Artuqid commission and describes rider, bird, falcon, pellet, dragon, gong and counting accumulated balls. The overview's whistle and catalogue's turning bird are attributed as their respective descriptions. Artwork is marked Public Domain. The copied folio is not a surviving original machine or a photograph of one.",
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
   "model": "unknown",
   "run": "inventions-p3-b16",
   "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451402, Overview and Catalogue Entry (Francesca Leoni in Ekhtiar, Soucek, Canby and Haidar 2011), read in browser 2026-11-06"
  }
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-05",
 "connections": [],
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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