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{
    "localId": "28599",
    "label": "Oxyrhynchus Fish",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2125"
}

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    "id": "28599",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2125",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Oxyrhynchus Fish",
    "description": "The Oxyrhynchus fish, or medjed, is an elephantfish that was a focus of worship around the Egyptian city of Per-Medjed (Greek Oxyrhynchus) in Upper Egypt. The sacred fish is depicted wearing a horned sun disc.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 7th-late 1st century BCE (Late Period-Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2125",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2125_3QtrFnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2125_3QtrFnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2125_3QtrFnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.8,
            "height": 14.4,
            "depth": 4.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/16 x W: 5 11/16 x D: 1 5/8 in. (7.8 x 14.4 x 4.2 cm); H with tang: 3 9/16 x W: 5 11/16 x D: 1 5/8 in. (9 x 14.4 x 4.2 cm); H with base: 5 11/16 x W: 6 3/4 x D: 2 1/4 in. (14.5 x 17.1 x 5.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 6,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.2125_Fnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "mediaId": "dc69f3d1440f67f1"
}