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{
    "localId": "12981",
    "label": "Top: Eli's Sons Commit Sacrilege (1 Samuel 2:13-17)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.17V"
}

{
    "id": "12981",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.17V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Top: Eli's Sons Commit Sacrilege (1 Samuel 2:13-17)",
    "description": "This page from Walters manuscript W.106 depicts scenes from the story of Samuel.  Top: The priest Eli's sons Hophni and Phinehas were also priests at the temple, and they took sacrifices that had been made at teh temple before the fat had been burned; they wanted it raw. The sin that they committed was very great in the eyes of God. Bottom: When Samuel was weaned, Hannah and Elkanah brought him to the temple.",
    "provenance": "Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 6, 1903, by purchase [see The Diaries of George Lucas]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1250 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.17V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.17v_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.17v_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.17v_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 13.2,
            "height": 9.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 3/16 x W: 3 3/4 in. (13.2 x 9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] the inscription for the TOP image has been partially cut off",
        "but the remainder reads: ...with all the blood and they stole it. God grew angry because Eli consented to it; [Transliteration] ...od tut le sanc e l[']emblerent. deu se curuza q[ua]r heli i cunsenti. [Translation] the inscription BELOW the image reads: Elkanah and Hannah brought Samuel to the temple and offered him to God. He remained there with Eli",
        "guarding the Ark; [Transliteration] helcana e anna porterent samuel al temple e l[']offurent a deu la remist od heli gardau[n]t l[']arche."
    ],
    "med": "ink and pigment on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3408",
        "3408"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "88"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.106.17v_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "80d0eb364d5cf7d4"
}