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{
    "localId": "1123",
    "label": "Scarab with Personal Wish Formula",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.54"
}

{
    "id": "1123",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.54",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Scarab with Personal Wish Formula",
    "description": "This steatite scarab has a flat underside with a vertically arranged bottom inscription with a personal wish formula. The top of the piece has a very detailed, deeply incised design with slightly irregular line flow and almost balanced proportions. The workmanship is good and the piece is simply made. The piece functioned as a provider individualized amulet and should provide its owner with the special support of the goddess Bastet. It originally would have been mounted or threaded.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "664-405 BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.54",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "scarabs",
        "amulets"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.54_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.54_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.54_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 0.7,
            "height": 1.1,
            "depth": 1.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1/4 x W: 7/16 x L: 9/16 in. (0.7 x 1.1 x 1.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "inscriptions": "[Translation] May I be a favorite of Bastet.",
    "dynasty": "26th-27th Dynasty",
    "med": "light red-beige steatite with green-blue glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_42.54_Bot_DD_design_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "0946ef484fd8d8c1"
}