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{
    "localId": "20897",
    "label": "Belt Ornament",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.374"
}

{
    "id": "20897",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.374",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Belt Ornament",
    "description": "This gold ornament is made of heavy, beaded wire. It must have formed the end piece of the tongue of the belt for which the belt buckle (Walters 57.373) also served. The belt would have been secured to the ornament through the rectangular opening at one end.",
    "provenance": "[From a tomb near Olbia, Parutino, Ukraine (?), 1913]; F. L. van Gans, Frankfurt (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; P. Mavrogordato, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague [catalogue 1921, part II, lot 92 M]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century CE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.374",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "buckles (strap accessories)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.374_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.374_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.374_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "W: 1 1/2 in. (3.81 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256",
        "15409"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_57.374_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "mediaId": "37ed660e191f314a"
}