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{
    "localId": "16061",
    "label": "Counterweight with Bust of Tiberius (?)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.819"
}

{
    "id": "16061",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.819",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Counterweight with Bust of Tiberius (?)",
    "description": "This head was originally made for use as a counterweight, as indicated by traces of a ring projecting from the top. The finely worked portrait may represent a youthful Emperor Tiberius (reigned 14-37 CE).",
    "provenance": "Madame E. Warneck Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 1905, p. 27, no. 168, pl. X [said to have been found at Boscoreale]; C. and E. Canessa, Rome and Paris, 1905, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Musueum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "14-68 CE (Early Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.819",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "weights"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.819_Fnt_BW_H51.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.819_Fnt_BW_H51.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.819_Fnt_BW_H51.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.5,
            "height": 6,
            "depth": 5.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 2 1/16 in. (9.5 x 6 x 5.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2506",
        "2189"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.819_VwA_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e88787350a92ef8f"
}