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    "localId": "11818",
    "label": "Cinerary Urn Fragment with Battle Scene",
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    "title": "Cinerary Urn Fragment with Battle Scene",
    "description": "The figures on this fragment of a cinerary urn seem to represent the sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices, fighting each other for power of the city of Thebes, while flanked by two winged Vanths. This myth was relatively popular on Etruscan cinerary urns.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2nd century BCE (Hellenistic)",
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27.2,
            "height": 38
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 10 11/16 x 14 15/16 in. (27.2 x 38 cm)"
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