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{
    "localId": "39092",
    "label": "Bull's Head",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.191"
}

{
    "id": "39092",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.191",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bull's Head",
    "description": "This head of a bull may have belonged to a small figurine of an Apis bull, which may have been an amulet pendant or a small ritual statuette. The head was mounted as an earring in modern times but it is unlikely that it was originally part of an earring.",
    "provenance": "Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, London, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Carmichael sale, Sotheby's, London, June 1926, p. 22, no. 234 (20); Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1550-1185 BCE (New Kingdom)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.191",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "figurines",
        "amulet-pendants"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.191_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.191_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.191_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.2,
            "height": 0.7,
            "depth": 1.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7/16 x W: 1/4 x D: 11/16 in. (1.18 x 0.7 x 1.81 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th-19th Dynasty",
    "med": "carnelian",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_42.191_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "064cd7dfecee33aa"
}