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    "localId": "13595",
    "label": "Handle with Land and Water Birds",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.603"
}

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    "id": "13595",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.603",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Handle with Land and Water Birds",
    "description": "This handle of a knife or other implement is decorated with deeply incised birds. Four appear on each side: on the convex front, a duck, a swallow, and two wading birds; on the flat back, two songbirds, a grouse, and a duck. They are divided by highly stylized plants, including papyrus. The top is incised with a star.The handle, stained brown, is drilled for a circular tang, and has a large chip at the opening. It has been broken in half and repaired.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "5th-6th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.603",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "handles"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm)"
}

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    "med": "stained fossilized bone",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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