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{
    "localId": "11475",
    "label": "Ring with Portrait of a Courtier",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1698"
}

{
    "id": "11475",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1698",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring with Portrait of a Courtier",
    "description": "This ring has a swivel bezel with an intaglio that depicts a head in profile to the left, sometimes identified as Asander I, King of Bosphorus. The signature \"of Apollonios\" is inscribed in Greek below the head.",
    "provenance": "Morrison Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Morrison Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1898, lot 261 [said to be from Kerch]; E. Guilhou, France, by 1912 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Guilhou no. 202]; Arthur Evans, Oxford, by 1938, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Evans inv. no. 65]; Jacob Hirsch, Munich, 1941 [executor of Evans' will]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "late 3rd-mid 1st century BCE (Seleucid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1698",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "finger rings",
        "intaglios"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.1698_Fnt_TR_T88.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.1698_Fnt_TR_T88.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.1698_Fnt_TR_T88.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.8,
            "height": 2.3,
            "depth": 2.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/8 x W: 15/16 x D: 15/16 in. (2.8 x 2.3 x 2.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Translation] of Apollonios",
    "med": "garnet; ring: gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15418"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513",
        "2237",
        "3294"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_57.1698_Prof_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "4f42894ac15411ee"
}