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    "localId": "34232",
    "label": "Lamp in the Form of a Foot with a Serpent",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1190"
}

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    "id": "34232",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1190",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lamp in the Form of a Foot with a Serpent",
    "description": "This lamp is shaped like a foot wearing a sandal and is topped by a rod with a serpent crowned by a sun disk. Lamps played an important role in the rituals connected to the solar aspects of Harpocrates and Serapis, as well as in the Isis mysteries. The Serapis-foot demonstrated the god's eternal presence. These feet were mostly combined with a bust of the deity, and this lamp likely had such an image of Serapis on the lid.",
    "provenance": "Giovanni Dattari, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Lambros-Dattari Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1912, June 17-19, 1912, p. 53, no. 460; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century CE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1190",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "lamps (lighting device components)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.1190_3Qtr_BW_H45.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.1190_3Qtr_BW_H45.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.8,
            "height": 3.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 1/4 x 1 5/16 in. (10.8 x 3.4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "bronze",
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    ],
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        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "2189"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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