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{
    "localId": "2836",
    "label": "Female Figure, Possibly with Dwarfism",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.531"
}

{
    "id": "2836",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.531",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Female Figure, Possibly with Dwarfism",
    "description": "This plump female figure has a large head, pointed ears, small round eyes, and pendulous breasts. A hole marks the navel. The pubic triangle is marked by incised dots. This figure has may have been depicted with the characteristics of dwarfism. The figure has short, distorted arms and thick legs. The right arm and left forearm are broken.",
    "provenance": "[Old number 3585]; MacGregor Collection, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; MacGregor Sale, Sotheby, Wilkenson & Hodge, London, June 29, 1922, lot 712;  Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.531",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.531_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.531_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.531_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.5,
            "height": 2,
            "depth": 0.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 3/4 x W: 13/16 x D: 5/16 in. (4.51 x 2.02 x 0.8 cm)"
}

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

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_71.531_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b7f8c02acd20596d"
}