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{
    "localId": "9219",
    "label": "Scaraboid Intaglio with a Seated Deity Set in a Swivel Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.128"
}

{
    "id": "9219",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.128",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Scaraboid Intaglio with a Seated Deity Set in a Swivel Ring",
    "description": "This scarab is damaged but an image of an offering table (?) in front of an enthroned deity in intaglio is still visible on the underside. The scarab bezel is finely carved of dark green stone, and the ring has a silver twisted wire hoop. The authenticity of this piece has been questioned.",
    "provenance": "Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 2; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "n.d.",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.128",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "scarabs",
        "rings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.128_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.128_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.128_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 0.7,
            "height": 1.3,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1/4 x W: 1/2 x D: 3/8 in. (0.7 x 1.3 x 1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "green stone; mount: silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_42.128_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c7a0cab6ee047b4d"
}