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{
    "localId": "23169",
    "label": "Woman Kneeling Before an Offering Table",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/32.2"
}

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    "id": "23169",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/32.2",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Woman Kneeling Before an Offering Table",
    "description": "Traces of red grid lines can be seen in this fragmentary painting from a tomb wall. It depicts a half-kneeling, half-squatting, woman in front of an offering table. The grid was used in ancient Egypt to assure the right proportions and layout of paintings and reliefs.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1450 BCE (New Kingdom)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/32.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "mural paintings",
        "fragments"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_32.2_FntDet_UK.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_32.2_FntDet_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_32.2_FntDet_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 29.5,
            "height": 23.4,
            "depth": 2.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 5/8 x W: 9 3/16 x D: 1 1/8 in. (29.5 x 23.4 x 2.8 cm); H within frame: 11 x W: 9 in. (27.9 x 22.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th Dynasty",
    "med": "distemper paint on mud plaster",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2176"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/ARG_32.2_FntDet_UK.jpg",
    "mediaId": "3434c1d9cc835407"
}