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{
    "localId": "11221",
    "label": "Scarab with a Lioness Set in a Swivel Pendant",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.123"
}

{
    "id": "11221",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.123",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Scarab with a Lioness Set in a Swivel Pendant",
    "description": "This scarab bears an image of a lioness carved in intaglio on the underside. The lion is walking to the left on a ground line.",
    "provenance": "Alfred Morrison, London, by 1898, [mode of acquisition unknown]; A. Morrison Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 29, 1898, lot 41; Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, lot 9; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase [Smith as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "5th-4th century BCE (Classical)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.123",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "scarabs",
        "intaglios"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.123_Fnt_TR_H74II.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.123_Fnt_TR_H74II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "chaldedony with gold mount",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_42.123_Fnt_TR_H74II.jpg",
    "mediaId": "2f5312e06cf0f727"
}