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{
    "localId": "4886",
    "label": "Seated Athlete",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.726"
}

{
    "id": "4886",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.726",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Seated Athlete",
    "description": "This figure’s hairstyle and clearly damaged ears (often described as “cauliflower ears,” the likely result of sustained trauma to the head) indicate he is an athlete. Possibly a wrestler or a boxer, he reclines wearily, perhaps after a match. His eyes and tongue are inlaid with silver.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Kharbia, Lower Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 4th century BCE-1st century CE (Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.726",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "statuettes (statues)",
        "pedestals"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.726_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.726_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.726_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "bronze, silver inlays; block: marble",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182",
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_54.726_Fnt_DD_AT21_24836-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "77bc64dba5b984b8"
}