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{
    "localId": "34601",
    "label": "Snake Head Amulet",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.357"
}

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    "id": "34601",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.357",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Snake Head Amulet",
    "description": "Snake's head pendants were common amulets in the New Kingdom, and were usually attached to a necklace. They should protect its owner in this life and the after life. For a similar pendant see Walters 42.356.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1550-1186 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th-19th dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.357",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "amulets",
        "amulet-pendants"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.4,
            "height": 1.7,
            "depth": 3.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9/16 x W: 11/16 x D: 1 1/4 in. (1.4 x 1.7 x 3.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th-19th Dynasty",
    "RelatedObjects": 33398,
    "med": "carnelian",
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    ],
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        "2513",
        "2704",
        "3193"
    ]
}

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