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    "localId": "28705",
    "label": "Ring Engraved with Eros",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1020"
}

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    "id": "28705",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1020",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring Engraved with Eros",
    "description": "The gold ring has an elliptical hoop, broadening at the shoulders, and a flat-topped oval bezel. Represented in intaglio on the bezel within an engraved circle is the figure of Eros holding a ball, one leg on a rock. A length of wire is coiled on the hoop.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd century CE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1020",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "rings"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.1020_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "5/8 in. (1.59 cm) (max. inner diam.)"
}

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    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2054",
        "2513",
        "2704"
    ]
}

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