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{
    "localId": "13455",
    "label": "Khnum",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.411"
}

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    "id": "13455",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.411",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Khnum",
    "description": "Ram-headed Khnum stands with his right hand at his side holding an ankh symbol (broken off) and his left hand forward holding a long staff (partially broken).His atef crown is topped by the sun disc. He also wears a royal kilt, an engraved collar, and a long wig. His eyes are inlaid.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 6869, said to be from Mit Rahina (Memphis), Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 300 BCE (?) (Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.411",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "figurines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.411_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.411_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[On the front of the base] Khnum",
        "give life",
        "health",
        "and high age",
        "a long and good age (to) Hor",
        "son of Khnum-em-tenr (?)"
    ],
    "med": "cast bronze and gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "34"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_54.411_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "1893c42d7185cc58"
}