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{
    "localId": "21078",
    "label": "Dog",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.523"
}

{
    "id": "21078",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.523",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dog",
    "description": "This figure of a reclining short-tailed dog (seluki (?)) with ears perked is schematically carved. The eyes are shown in relief. The piece is perforated horizontally through the belly; another hole leads from this perforation to the base.",
    "provenance": "MacGregor Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [lot 708]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "second half 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.523",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "game pieces"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.523_Bot_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.523_Bot_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.523_Bot_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.4,
            "height": 1.3,
            "depth": 0.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 3/4 x W: 1/2 x D: 3/16 in. (4.4 x 1.29 x 0.48 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "hippopotamus ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_71.523_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "50e8a4fcf60eb0c6"
}