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{
    "localId": "4264",
    "label": "Standing Thoth with Ibis Head",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1547"
}

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    "id": "4264",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1547",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Standing Thoth with Ibis Head",
    "description": "The Egyptians depicted Thoth, the god of wisdom and writing, as an ibis (a wading bird), a man with an ibis head, or a baboon. Thoth amulets primarily protected officials and the deceased in the underworld. This was probably made during the 30th Dynasty.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "664-332 BC (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1547",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "amulets",
        "figurines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1547_LftVwB_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1547_LftVwB_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 13.8,
            "height": 3.2,
            "depth": 5.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 7/16 x W: 1 1/4 x D: 2 1/16 in. (13.8 x 3.2 x 5.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "30th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with green glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "10"
    ]
}

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    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_48.1547_Bot_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "862e5213c4c5d375"
}