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{
    "localId": "6429",
    "label": "Eros and Psyche",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.619"
}

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    "id": "6429",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.619",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Eros and Psyche",
    "description": "The summary relief, framed by an incised hatched border, shows a man, probably Eros, nude and with an arrow, and a woman, probably Psyche, partially draped, beside him. The bottom is broken and a lower piece has been reattached.Two oval plaques in the Benaki Museum, Athens, show an identical subject and positioning of holes, top and bottom, for pinning the pieces to a backing. Only one hole is preserved on the Walters piece. The function of these oval plaques is unknown.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by puarchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd-5th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.619",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "plaques (flat objects)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.619_Fnt_BW_H53.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.8,
            "height": 4.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 5/16 x W: 1 5/8 in. (5.8 x 4.2 cm)"
}

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    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "b7f8ecd7711c3185"
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