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    "localId": "78076",
    "label": "Above: How Astaraniqos slept on his bed using the picture of St. Michael as a pillow;Below: How a blacksmith toiled in making a panel for the picture of St. Michael",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.835.72V"
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    "id": "78076",
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    "title": "Above: How Astaraniqos slept on his bed using the picture of St. Michael as a pillow;Below: How a blacksmith toiled in making a panel for the picture of St. Michael",
    "provenance": "Gäbrä and Giyorgis Sellase [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Kidanä and Sählä Maryam [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Knopfelmacher Collection, New York, No. 2 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Wright Gallery, New York, 1995-1996; Walters Art Museum, 1996, by purchase.",
    "date": "late 17th century (early Gondarine)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.835.72V",
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    "language": "en",
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        }
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 x W: 9 1/16 in. (25.4 x 23 cm)"
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    "cul": "Christian Highland Ethiopian",
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