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    "localId": "2280",
    "label": "Female Figure, Possibly with Dwarfism",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.507"
}

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    "id": "2280",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.507",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Female Figure, Possibly with Dwarfism",
    "description": "This carefully carved plump female figure has short limbs, a large head with short curly hair, and large breasts. A deep hole marks the navel. The wide pubic triangle is marked by holes. There is a depression on top of the buttocks. On the head is a large lotus blossom. A ball surrounded by ridges has been inserted into the hollow lotus to form the calyx of the flower.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Lower Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore,1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.507",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "figurines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.507_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.507_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.1,
            "height": 1.4,
            "depth": 1.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 7/16 x W: 9/16 x D: 9/16 in. (6.14 x 1.44 x 1.35 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "bone",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_71.507_Top_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "7f807d3adb6db098"
}