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{
    "localId": "99799",
    "label": "Dirhem of Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.801"
}

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    "id": "99799",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.801",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dirhem of Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan",
    "description": "Obverse: Three standing figures around a central, seated female figure, perhaps in mourning; within a border of dots.Reverse: Names and tiles of the Abbasid caliph surrounded by name and title of Ayyubid overlord Saif al-Din Abu Bakr in line; name and titles of Arslan, with date, around edge; all within a border of dots.The obverse scene has been interpreted as mourning the death of Saladin but also as a depiction of the alignment of the constellation Virgo with the visible planets in 1186 CE.",
    "provenance": "Purchased by Richard Ettinghausen [1906-1979], 1950s-1960s; inherited by Elizabeth Ettinghausen, Princeton, 1979; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2018.",
    "date": "1184-1200 (Artuquid of Mardin)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.801",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "coins"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS4_59.801_Obv_DD_AT22_38041-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS4_59.801_Obv_DD_AT22_38041-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2,
            "height": 2.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "D: 13/16 × Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2 × 2.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Turkish",
    "dynasty": "Artuquid of Mardin",
    "med": "copper alloy, struck",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2431"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_59.801_Obv_DD_AT22_38041-tms.jpg",
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