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    "localId": "1084",
    "label": "Nomos of Taras",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.520"
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    "id": "1084",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Nomos of Taras",
    "description": "Obverse: Naked youth crowning himself, on horseback prancing right. Reverse: Naked Taras/Phalanthos astride a dolphin left, serpent in left hand, whip in right; in exergue, KON (control mark).",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 302 BCE (Early Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.520",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "coins"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Max diam: 15/16 in. (2.38 cm); axis 10:00"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Greek; reverse] TARAΣ [Translation] Taras"
    ],
    "med": "silver; struck",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
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