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    "localId": "14475",
    "label": "Harpokrates (Horus the Child)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1597"
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    "id": "14475",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1597",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Harpokrates (Horus the Child)",
    "description": "The god of kingship is depicted as a child. He received his magical power from his mother, Isis.",
    "provenance": "Giovanni Dattari, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown];Lambros-Dattari Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1912, June 17-19, 1912, p. 54, no. 477; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th century BCE (Late Period-early Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1597",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "width": 6.8,
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 11/16 x W: 1/2 x D: 13/16 in. (6.76 x 1.27 x 2.05 cm)"
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