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{
    "localId": "16472",
    "label": "Plaque with Allegorical Relief",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1113"
}

{
    "id": "16472",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1113",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plaque with Allegorical Relief",
    "description": "Carved from the widest part of a hippopotamus tooth, this panel was originally attached to a box or a piece of furniture.  The figures have not been identified fully but may represent a river goddess in the center with, to the left, a male personification of a spring pouring water from his inverted vase.  To the right, Helios, the sun god, drives his horse-drawn chariot and salutes another female deity.",
    "provenance": "Jack Pierpont Morgan, New York, by purchase;  Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, March 22, 1944, no. 76;  Joseph Brummer, New York, 1944, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1944, by purchase.",
    "date": "5th-6th century (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1113",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "plaques"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.1113_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.1113_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.1113_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.3,
            "height": 23,
            "depth": 0.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 1/16 x 9 1/16 in. (10.3 x 23 x 0.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Coptic",
    "med": "hippopotamus ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640",
        "6833"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "BYZ"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_71.1113_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9c2b67e4a5f133d8"
}