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    "localId": "3236",
    "label": "Furniture Knob with Name of King",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.405"
}

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    "id": "3236",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.405",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Furniture Knob with Name of King",
    "description": "This knob belonged to a chest and was used to fasten it. Inscribed on the knob are the birth and throne names of Tutankhamen. It also mentions that he is \"beloved of Ptah,\" the creator-god of Memphis.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1340 BC (New Kingdom)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.405",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "furniture"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.3,
            "height": 5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 7/8 x 1 15/16 in. (7.3 x 5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription]",
    "dynasty": "18th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience",
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    ],
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}

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