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{
    "localId": "18664",
    "label": "Bead",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1662"
}

{
    "id": "18664",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1662",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bead",
    "description": "This large openwork bead made of blue faience has on either side five different goddesses, each identified by a headdress. The hollow space between suggests the two sides of the plaque were made in identical moulds and joined before firing. Perforated lengthwise.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1662",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "amulets",
        "beads"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1662_SideA_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1662_SideA_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1662_SideA_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.4,
            "height": 5,
            "depth": 0.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 3/4 x W: 1 15/16 x W: 1/4 in. (4.42 x 4.98 x 0.57 cm)"
}

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    "med": "faience",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 6,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_48.1662_Bot_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b83b52025d4ae88c"
}