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{
    "localId": "10184",
    "label": "Ring with Cartouche-Shaped Bezel",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.417"
}

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    "id": "10184",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.417",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring with Cartouche-Shaped Bezel",
    "description": "This example of turquoise-colored faience is chipped and has incrustations in the deeply cut, crisp hieroglyphs which read \"May your house flourish, may your lifetime be jubilant under the gifts of Amun of Karnak (and) a high old age.\"",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [obtained in Luxor]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1070-940 BCE (Third Intermediate Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.417",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "rings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.417_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.417_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.417_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.9,
            "height": 6.2,
            "depth": 1.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Cartouche Bezel L: 2 5/16 x W: 2 7/16 x D: 1/2 in. (5.93 x 6.23 x 1.28 cm); Inner Diam.: 1/2 in. (1.23 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "21st Dynasty",
    "med": "faience with blue glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "10",
        "2513",
        "2345"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_42.417_VwA_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9982d4830d05b0c8"
}