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    "localId": "12905",
    "label": "Return of the Magi",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "12905",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.539.19R",
    "contentType": "object",
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    "title": "Return of the Magi",
    "provenance": "Priest T'oros, nephew of the catholicos Constantine I, Hromkla, Armenia, between 1262 and 1266; Hermitage of Ark'-akaghin, Cilicia, Armenia, 1266 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Ter Tiratur, Sebastia, Armenia 1604 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Church of the Holy Virgin, Sebastia, Armenia, between 1626 and 1881 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Church of the Holy Cross, Sebastia, Armenia, beween 1881 and 1915 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Dikran Kelekian, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, New York, 1929, by purchase; Sadie Jones [Mrs. Henry Walters], New York, 1931, by bequest; given to Walters Art Museum, 1935.",
    "date": "1262 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.539.19R",
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    "language": "en",
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