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{
    "localId": "15624",
    "label": "Female Fertility Figure",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.517"
}

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    "id": "15624",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.517",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Female Fertility Figure",
    "description": "Female fertility figures became popular during the Middle Kingdom. They were found in tombs of men and women, and were also later donated to the temples. This statuette displays a nude girl. She is adorned with a belt, and a long necklace with a pectoral. The figure once had a wig attached which is now lost, but the dowel holes where it would have been attached are preserved. The pubic triangle is marked by incised dots and a line.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "20th century BCE (Middle Kingdom)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.517",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "figurines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.517_3Qtr_TR.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.517_3Qtr_TR.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.5,
            "height": 3.2,
            "depth": 2.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 7/8 x 1 1/4 x 15/16 in. (12.5 x 3.2 x 2.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "12th Dynasty",
    "med": "hippopotamus ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "215"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_71.517_3Qtr_TR.jpg",
    "mediaId": "4167fa456455ec5b"
}