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    "localId": "16698",
    "label": "Isis Nursing Harpocrates",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1526"
}

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    "id": "16698",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Isis Nursing Harpocrates",
    "description": "Isis was a goddess of kingship and magical power. Images of her as a nursing mother were believed to protect women and children.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "663-525 BC (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1526",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "amulets",
        "figurines"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1526_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11,
            "height": 6.4,
            "depth": 4.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 5/16 x W: 2 1/2 x D: 1 13/16 in. (10.95 x 6.36 x 4.65 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "26th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with green glaze",
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    ],
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