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    "localId": "1730",
    "label": "Statue of a Standing Khonsu",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.395"
}

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    "id": "1730",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.395",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Statue of a Standing Khonsu",
    "description": "Khonsu could be represented either as a youth or a falcon-headed male with a moon-disk and crescent on his head, as here. He is mentioned as a moon god in the pyramid texts as early as the 3rd millennium BCE. As the son of Amun and Mut he was worshipped in Karnak where he had his own temple from the Middle Kingdom onwards.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 664-525 BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.395",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_54.395_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28.5,
            "height": 5.7,
            "depth": 8.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "11 1/4 x 2 1/4 x 3 3/16 in. (28.5 x 5.7 x 8.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "style": "Saitic",
    "dynasty": "25th Dynasty",
    "med": "bronze with gold and glass inlay",
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        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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