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{
    "localId": "14002",
    "label": "Pyxis",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.76"
}

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    "id": "14002",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.76",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pyxis",
    "description": "This pyxis, or cylindrical box, is an exquisite example of Roman luxury glassware, used to hold cosmetics or precious jewelry. Cylindrical in shape with a knob on the cover; stratified: green, white, yellow, blue.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be found near Jerusalem]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 1st century BC (Early Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.76",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Glasswares",
        "boxes (containers)",
        "covers",
        "pxyides"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_47.76_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_47.76_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_47.76_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.8,
            "height": 4.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 1 7/8 × 1 5/8 in. (4.8 × 4.2 cm); H of box: 1 5/16 × 1 9/16 in. (3.4 × 4 cm); H of lid: 1 1/8 × 1 5/8 in. (2.8 × 4.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "glass, gold leaf",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "454"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "1e536ba9af1a1333"
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