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{
    "localId": "26697",
    "label": "Hippopotamus",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.527"
}

{
    "id": "26697",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.527",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Hippopotamus",
    "description": "This animal with a hanging belly, short legs and tail, oval head, wide mouth, and large ears shown flat against the head is probably a hippopotamus. Details of the figure are partly modeled, partly incised. The right leg has been reattached.",
    "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, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "second half 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.527",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "game pieces",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.527_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.527_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.527_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1,
            "height": 3.2,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3/8 x W: 1 1/4 x D: 1/8 in. (0.95 x 3.16 x 0.36 cm)"
}

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

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    "seq": 5,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_71.527_Top_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "0cbf2c2cc99535a4"
}