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{
    "localId": "39696",
    "label": "Silver Chalice",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.633"
}

{
    "id": "39696",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.633",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Silver Chalice",
    "description": "State officials in the early Byzantine Empire often inspected newly made silver objects and stamped them to attest to the purity of the metal. Four such stamps on the bottom of this cup for Communion wine contain, together with the inspectors' names, the monograms of Emperor Justinian (ruled 527-65) and of his minister Peter (served 547-50). The donor of the chalice was a state official whose name is recorded in the text along the rim: \"For the prayer and salvation of the imperial agent Symeonius and of his household.\"",
    "provenance": "[Excavated in Syria, ca. 1908-1910]; Tawfic Abucasem, Hama and Port Said, ca. 1913, by purchase; Joseph Brummer, Paris, ca. 1928, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "547-550 (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.633",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "chalices"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.633_Prof_TR_T01IV.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.633_Prof_TR_T01IV.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.633_Prof_TR_T01IV.jpg",
    "imageCount": 13,
    "pageCount": 13,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.5,
            "height": 11.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H at cup rim: 4 15/16 x Diam: 4 11/16 in. (12.5 x 11.9 cm); Diam at foot rim: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] Encircling the top of the cup: + In fulfillment of a vow and [for] the salvation of SYMEONIOS",
        "magistr[ianos]",
        "and of THOSE WHO BELONG TO HIM;  [Stamp] Five stamps inside the foot"
    ],
    "med": "silver, traces of silver sulfide inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BYZ"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1957",
        "358",
        "2244",
        "246",
        "2699",
        "2752"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 10,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_57.633_BotMrkVw1_NF_H55-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ce0806ebb4a2d2b7"
}