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    "localId": "15706",
    "label": "Ring Engraved with a Griffin and a Lion",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.427"
}

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    "id": "15706",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.427",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring Engraved with a Griffin and a Lion",
    "description": "This ring has a hollow hoop and an oblong bezel engraved with a griffin in profile, on the left, and a lion in profile, on the right, facing each other. The animals are separated and surrounded by a segmented line. Rings like this one are ultimately of Egyptian origin but were popular in Etruria in the late 7th and 6th centuries BCE.",
    "provenance": "Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as part of the so-called \"\"Jugoslavian Treasure\"\"]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "6th century BCE (Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.427",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "seals (artifacts)",
        "rings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.427_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.427_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max. Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm)"
}

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    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6291"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_57.427_NF_3974.jpg",
    "mediaId": "da785be407c77587"
}