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    "localId": "16606",
    "label": "Ptah",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1017"
}

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    "id": "16606",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1017",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ptah",
    "description": "Ptah was believed to have created the world with his words. He was the main god at Memphis and patron god of craftsmen and artists. Here, he holds a composite scepter combining three symbols: \"was\" (well-being), \"ankh\" (life), and \"djed\" (stability).",
    "provenance": "[Found in Mitrahina]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-1st century BCE (Late Period (30th dynasty)-early Ptolemaic Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1017",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 9,
    "pageCount": 9,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.5,
            "height": 6.2,
            "depth": 11
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/16 x W: 2 7/16 x D: 4 5/16 in. (20.5 x 6.2 x 11 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "inscriptions": "[Translation] On the ramp of the base: To be recited: Ptah the Lord of Truth; on the platform only the name \"\"Ptah\"\" has survived.",
    "dynasty": "30th-early Ptolemaic Dynasty",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3193"
    ]
}

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