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{
    "localId": "24447",
    "label": "Ring Engraved with a Hunter on Horseback",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1007"
}

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    "id": "24447",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1007",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring Engraved with a Hunter on Horseback",
    "description": "The hollow hoop is rounded on the outside and slightly ridged on the inside, with a spreading shoulder. On the oval bezel is a hunter on horseback wearing a Persian cap, brandishing a spear, and chasing an antelope. A hunt on horseback was the favorite recreation of Persian nobility. However, the type of ring and its style are typically Greek. It has been suggested that this ring belongs to a group made by local \"barbarian\" Anatolian craftsmen in imitation of the so-called Greco-Persian gems. The date is probably the second quarter of the fifth century BC.",
    "provenance": "Collection of Newton-Robinson [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Collection of Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 44; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "5th century BCE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1007",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "rings",
        "signets"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.1007_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.1007_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "W of Bezel: 7/8 in. (2.22 cm); Diam of Hoop: 13/16 in. (2.06 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "bronze, silver alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_57.1007_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f4612ee90da5617c"
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