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    "localId": "29432",
    "label": "Foundation Tablet with Inscription of Gudea",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.221"
}

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    "id": "29432",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.221",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Foundation Tablet with Inscription of Gudea",
    "description": "This tablet is plano-convex, and has an inscription of Gudea on two faces.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5010]; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.",
    "date": "2144-2124 BCE (Lagash II; Ur III)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.221",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "tablets"
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.2,
            "height": 7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 x W: 2 3/4 in. (10.2 x 7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Neo-Sumerian",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription]",
    "reign": "Gudea (ca. 2144-2124 BC)",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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