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    "localId": "2384",
    "label": "Plaque",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.561"
}

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    "id": "2384",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.561",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plaque",
    "description": "This plaque was probably originally set into a piece of furniture in a madrasa, or theological college, built by Sultan Qaitbay (1467-1496), ruler of the Mamluk Dynasty and an active patron of the arts. The inscription in \"thuluth\" script is an invocation based on two verses of the Qur'an (from \"sura,\" or chapter, 74). It reads: \"Night and day have mixed in the enjoyment of it.\"",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1470 (late Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.561",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "plaques (flat objects)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.561_Fnt_BW_H77.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.561_Fnt_BW_H77.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.561_Fnt_BW_H77.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.5,
            "height": 28.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 9/16 x 11 1/4 in. (6.5 x 28.5 cm)with frame 4 5/16 x 13 x 3/8 in. (11 x 33 x 1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "style": "Mamluk",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] Night and day have mixed in the enjoyment of it.",
    "dynasty": "Burgi Dynasty (AD 1382-1517)",
    "reign": "Sultan Ashraf Qaitbay (AD 1467-1496)",
    "med": "ivory or bone",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "305",
        "2114"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_71.561_Fnt_BW_H77.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8485d0c46755c7dd"
}