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{
    "localId": "12405",
    "label": "Lion-Headed Harmiysis and Worshipper",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1013"
}

{
    "id": "12405",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1013",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lion-Headed Harmiysis and Worshipper",
    "description": "Lion-Headed Harmiysis stands with left foot advanced; both feet are placed on a low relief depicting a dead antelope with legs bound. Harmiysis wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt and a royal kilt; he holds a sickle-shaped sword and a sham staff in his hands. A shaven-headed priest kneels in front of the god and raises his hands in worship. The god and priest are joined to the separately made pedestal.",
    "provenance": "Khawam Brothers, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Mit Rahina (Memphis), Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 8th-mid 4th century BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1013",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_54.1013_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_54.1013_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_54.1013_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 12,
    "pageCount": 12,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.1,
            "height": 4.8,
            "depth": 12.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 11/16 x W: 1 7/8 x D: 4 13/16 in. (22.1 x 4.8 x 12.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Partially obliterated inscription on pedestal] To be recited: Hor-p-mey-huse",
        "the great god who is in Hebenu",
        "may he give life",
        "prosperity",
        "health",
        "a high age",
        "a long and good age",
        "authority",
        "honor and praise (to)...(priest) of Hor",
        "the lord of Hebenu",
        "Nes-p-muy",
        "son of Djed-Eset-efonkh..."
    ],
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 7,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.1013_Det_DD_T12.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d2b61f596d945a35"
}