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{
    "localId": "23155",
    "label": "Amulet",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.195"
}

{
    "id": "23155",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.195",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Amulet",
    "description": "The feet have broken away from this black-speckled carnelian representation of Horus-the-Child, but the angle of the legs suggests he was seated on his mother's lap. A loop protruding from the shoulders is also broken off.",
    "provenance": "Collection of Lord Carmichael of Skirling [a few miles north of Biggar, Scotland] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Antiquities of the Collection of the Late Lord Carmichael of Skirling Sale, Sotheby and Company, London, June 9, 1926, p. 22, lot 235 (21); Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1200-736 BCE (New Kingdom-early Third Intermediate Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.195",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "pendants",
        "amulets",
        "figurine"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.195_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.195_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.195_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.9,
            "height": 1.2,
            "depth": 0.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3/4 x W: 7/16 x D: 1/16 in. (1.93 x 1.15 x 0.09 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "19th-23rd Dynasty",
    "med": "carnelian",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2054",
        "2513",
        "2704"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_42.195_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d01499a68d279a01"
}