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    "localId": "15246",
    "label": "Female",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.535"
}

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    "id": "15246",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.535",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Female",
    "description": "A female figure stands stiffly, the shaved head slightly raised. The shoulders droop and the hands dangle, the fingers indicated by simple grooves. Large oval depressions indicate the eyes; the top left eyelid is shown. She has a ledgelike left ear, full breasts, and slender hips with well-shaped buttocks. Incised holes mark the public triangle and navel.There are many old breaks and repairs and a light area in line over the left arm and throax. The lower legs have been broken off.",
    "provenance": "MacGregor Collection [cat. 1922, p 93, no. 712, pl. XXIV]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.535",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "figurines"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.535_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.8,
            "height": 2.5,
            "depth": 0.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 7/8 x W: 1 x D: 5/16 in. (4.8 x 2.49 x 0.8 cm)"
}

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    "med": "hippopotamus ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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