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    "localId": "10570",
    "label": "Ring with an Intaglio of Dionysus",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1114"
}

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    "id": "10570",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1114",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring with an Intaglio of Dionysus",
    "description": "The shoulders of this massive ring are engraved with a torch and a trident, and terminate in the jaws of large snake heads. The carnelian depicts a reclining male figure leaning on a staff. Wreaths on his head and in his right hand identify him as the wine-god Dionysus. Before him stands what may be another torch or a horn of plenty, both of which, like snakes, were symbols of Dionysus: snakes represented wild animals over which the god presided, while torches may allude to the \"Lampteria,\" the \"Festival of Torches\" celebrated in Dionysus's cult.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd century CE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1114",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "finger rings",
        "intaglios"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.1114_3Qtr_BW_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.1114_3Qtr_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 in. (2.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "gold, carnelian",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "2227",
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_57.1114_3Qtr_BW_C79.jpg",
    "mediaId": "fc74b5d5f236f866"
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