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    "localId": "14212",
    "label": "Sphinx Vase Ornament",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1078"
}

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    "id": "14212",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1078",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sphinx Vase Ornament",
    "description": "Locri Epizephyrii (present-day Gerace, Italy), a particularly active bronze-working center, specialized in richly ornamental attachments for vessels and utensils. This vase attachment is in the form of a sphinx, a mythical creature with the body of a lion, wings of a bird, and head of a woman. She wears a high \"polos\", or ritual crown.",
    "provenance": "Lambros Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jean P. Lambros and Giovanni Dattari Sale, Paris, June 17-19, 1912, lot 215; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "6th century BC (Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1078",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "vase ornaments"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.2,
            "height": 7,
            "depth": 2.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 1 in. (8.2 x 7 x 2.5 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Archaic",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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