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    "localId": "38874",
    "label": "Bastet Standing",
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    "id": "38874",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.408",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bastet Standing",
    "description": "Bastet, often represented with the head of a lion or a cat, was a goddess both of joy and pleasure and of warfare. Here, she holds a protective ritual instrument, an usekh-collar surmounted by a feline head with a sun-disk.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-mid 3rd century BCE (Late Period-Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.408",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.4,
            "height": 4.7,
            "depth": 6.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 11/16 x 1 7/8 x 2 9/16 in. (14.4 x 4.7 x 6.5 cm);mount: 1 7/8 x 2 x 3 5/8 in. (4.8 x 5.1 x 9.3 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "29th-Ptolemaic Dynasty",
    "med": "bronze with gold inlay",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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