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    "localId": "78190",
    "label": "Map of the City of Istanbul, from Book on Navigation by Piri Reis",
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    "dtoType": "map",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.658.370B"
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    "id": "78190",
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    "contentType": "map",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Map of the City of Istanbul, from Book on Navigation by Piri Reis",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.658 contains a map of the city of Constantinople (Qustantiniyah).",
    "provenance": "Ahmad Afandi [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [see folio 4a]; Ali Afandi [date and mode of acquisiton unknown] [see folio 4a]; Sayyid Ali Qapudan [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [see folio 1a]; Sultan Mahmud Khan [date and mode of acquistion unknown] [waqf seal and followed by a bequest statement (now erased), and the seal of the inspector of wakfs, Mustafá Tahir, see folio 4a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 11th century AH/17th century AD-early 12th century AH/18th century AD (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.658.370B",
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    "language": "en",
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 34,
            "height": 24
        }
    ],
    "med": "opaque watercolor and ink on laid European paper; bound between boards covered with leather, gold",
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    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13 3/8 x W: 9 7/16 in. (34 x 24 cm)"
}

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