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    "localId": "11026",
    "label": "Inscribed Pound Weight",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.6"
}

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    "id": "11026",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.6",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Inscribed Pound Weight",
    "description": "This green glass weight is among the earliest dated Islamic objects (other than coins) in any American museum. The inscription, stamped into the weight when the glass was semi-molten, gives the name of Yazid III, a caliph (ruler) of the Umayyad dynasty (661–750). It also states that “God commands honesty,” an appropriate sentiment for its function as a weight used to measure coins made of precious materials like gold, silver, or copper.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "126 AH/AD 743 (Early Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.6",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Glasswares",
        "weights"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_47.6_Top_DD_T10.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_47.6_Top_DD_T10.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_47.6_Top_DD_T10.jpg",
    "imageCount": 17,
    "pageCount": 17,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.2,
            "height": 7.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 5/8 x Diam: 2 15/16 in. (4.2 x 7.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Umayyad",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] Stamped into surface: In the name of God. He [God] commands honesty. The servant of God Yazid",
        "Commander of the Faithful. Executed by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Rahman in the year 126. Full ratl."
    ],
    "dynasty": "Umayyad Dynasty",
    "reign": "Yazid III (AD 704-744)",
    "med": "glass",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3930",
        "15399"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "781"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 16,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_47.600_Back_DD_AT23_46309 1.jpg",
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