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{
    "localId": "10770",
    "label": "Winged Griffin Nibbling on Sacred Tree",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1171"
}

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    "id": "10770",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1171",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Winged Griffin Nibbling on Sacred Tree",
    "description": "This Phoenician-style ivory plaque shows a griffin (a creature with a lion's body, falcon's head, and wings) nibbling on a sacred tree. The griffin rests one forepaw on a papyrus blossom and the other on a branch of the tree. The sacred tree may be associated with agricultural abundance and nourishment. This plaque would have adorned the outside of a box.",
    "provenance": "British School of Archaeology, Iraq, by excavation [at Fort Shalmanesat, Room S.W. 37, at Nimrud, Excavation No. N.D. 10650]; Walters Art Museum, September 1983, by exchange.",
    "date": "8th-7th century BCE (Neo-Assyrian)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1171",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "plaques (flat objects)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.1171_Fnt_DD_T06.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.1171_Fnt_DD_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.5,
            "height": 6.1,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/16 x W: 2 3/8 x D: 3/8 in. (5.5 x 6.1 x 1 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Assyrian",
    "med": "ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15540"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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