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    "localId": "15234",
    "label": "Lentoid Bottle",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.36"
}

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    "id": "15234",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.36",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lentoid Bottle",
    "description": "In ancient Egypt, vessels were formed by heating powdered glass in a furnace around a clay core. Once the glass had melted around the core, glassmakers trailed threads of molten glass around the vessel and combed the trails with a pointed tool to create patterns.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Dendera]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1390-1213 BCE (New Kingdom, late 18th-19th Dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.36",
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    "language": "en",
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        "bottles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_47.36_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th Dynasty",
    "med": "glass",
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "454",
        "2003"
    ]
}

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