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{
    "localId": "799",
    "label": "Dog (?)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.524"
}

{
    "id": "799",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.524",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dog (?)",
    "description": "This crudely carved figure of a dog (?) crouching with forepaws on the ground, head up, and ears perked is probably a game piece.",
    "provenance": "MacGregor Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [lot 708]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.524",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "game pieces",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.524_Top_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.524_Top_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.524_Top_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.6,
            "height": 1.1,
            "depth": 0.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 x W: 7/16 x D: 1/8 in. (2.55 x 1.05 x 0.28 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "hippopotamus ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_71.524_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "29900a6c4be10da1"
}