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{
    "localId": "15119",
    "label": "Jubilee Vessel of Pepi I",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.28"
}

{
    "id": "15119",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.28",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Jubilee Vessel of Pepi I",
    "description": "The beautiful hieroglyphs on this vessel identify its owner and the ritual in which it was used. On the left is King Pepi I's Horus name (one of a king's five names), \"Beloved of the Two Lands [Egypt].\" At center is his throne name, Mery-re; below are brief, symmetrical texts reading, \"given life and dominion forever.\" On the right is a text, \"First day of the Sed-festival.\" If an Egyptian king reigned for thirty years, he performed a ritual of renewal, the Sed-festival, in which this vessel would have been used.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 2290 BCE (Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.28",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Stone",
        "vessels"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_41.28_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_41.28_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_41.28_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.5,
            "height": 10.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "bottom: 5 11/16 x 4 3/16 in. (14.5 x 10.7 cm) (h. x diam.);top: 5 11/16 in. (14.4 cm) (diam.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] The Horus",
        "Mery-tawy (Beloved of the Two Lands); King of Upper and Lower Egypt",
        "Mery-re (Beloved of Re); First occasion of the Sed-festival; Given life and dominion forever",
        "given life and dominion forever; [Translation] Right column: \"\"First of the Sed Festival\"\" Middle column: \"\"King of Upper and Lower Egypt\"\"",
        "Mery-Ra Left column: \"\"Horus name=Mery-tawy\"\"; Horizontally \"\" Given life and happiness forever\"\" (this twice)"
    ],
    "dynasty": "6th Dynasty",
    "reign": "Pepi I (2321-2287 BC)",
    "med": "alabaster (calcite) and pigment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_41.28_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c380831a284e49ca"
}