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    "localId": "16638",
    "label": "Animal Buckle",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2306"
}

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    "id": "16638",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2306",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Animal Buckle",
    "description": "This small buckle, perhaps a boot buckle, displays a cast linear decoration on the loop and tongue. Many similar examples have been found in Visigothic tombs.",
    "provenance": "Mrs. Georges Seligmann [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1946, by gift.",
    "date": "7th century (Early Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2306",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "buckles (strap accessories)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_54.2306_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_54.2306_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.8,
            "height": 3.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/2 x W: 1 7/16 in. (3.8 x 3.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Visigothic",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4764"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "05777731b7f7c04c"
}