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{
    "localId": "10588",
    "label": "Master of Animals Finial",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.120"
}

{
    "id": "10588",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.120",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Master of Animals Finial",
    "description": "This ornament is called a \"master-of-animals\" standard due to its representation of a deity or demon flanked by monsters. Two cock heads emerge from the necks of the monsters. A second demon head is inserted midway down the body. These standards must have played a major role in the religious culture, and several examples have been excavated from burials.",
    "provenance": "[Found in Nevahend, Persia (?)]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th-8th century BCE (Iron Age)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.120",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "standards (identifying artifacts)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.120_Fnt_BW_H72.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.120_Fnt_BW_H72.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.120_Fnt_BW_H72.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.2,
            "height": 7,
            "depth": 2.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 7/8 in. (17.2 x 7 x 2.2 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "cast bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6747"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.120_SideB_DD_T14.jpg",
    "mediaId": "6aa1072cfec1d43e"
}