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{
    "localId": "15541",
    "label": "Apis Bull",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1477"
}

{
    "id": "15541",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1477",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Apis Bull",
    "description": "A cast silver pendant representing the holy Apis bull, who wears a sun disk with \"uraeus\" between his horns. Incised lines mark the characteristic triangle on the forehead, wide necklaces and saddle cloth. The bull stands on a kind of sled, which divides in two and turns up in front. The combination of the bull with a sled indicates that the statue of the holy Apis bull is represented and not the divine living bull itself. There is a loop behind the neck to use the statuette as a pendant. The surface of the metal has deteriorated. The right rear leg is broken off and the fore legs both have a crack which goes through the whole material.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from the pyramids in Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-3rd century BCE (early Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1477",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "amulets",
        "pendants",
        "amulet-pendants"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_57.1477_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_57.1477_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_57.1477_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.7,
            "height": 0.9,
            "depth": 2.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11/16 x W: 3/8 x D: 1 1/16 in. (1.7 x 0.94 x 2.66 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "13th Dynasty",
    "med": "silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_57.1477_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f12366000e9e7ed9"
}