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{
    "localId": "16876",
    "label": "Pilgrim Medallion with Christ, Angels, Apostles, and Saints",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.5"
}

{
    "id": "16876",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.5",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pilgrim Medallion with Christ, Angels, Apostles, and Saints",
    "description": "Made from molten glass pressed in a mold, this type of medallion was mass-produced and served as a souvenir or memento of a visit to a holy shrine. The medallion, with a typically Byzantine composition, shows that craftsmen in the port city of Venice were familiar with the art of Constantinople.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.5",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Glasswares",
        "medallions (medals)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_47.5_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_47.5_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_47.5_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.6,
            "height": 5.9,
            "depth": 1.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 5/8 x 2 5/16 x 7/16 in. (6.6 x 5.9 x 1.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Italian",
    "style": "Byzantine",
    "inscriptions": [
        "Cast labels identify the figures on the medallion. On the middle register",
        "reading right to left and top to bottom: left of leftmost figure: B/TO/LO/M/US; [Transcription] B[AR]T[H]OLOM[E]US; [Translation] Bartholomew; left of the central figure: S/ IC; [Transcription] S[ANCTUS]/I[ESUS] C[HRISTUS]; [Translation] Saint (refers to Bartholemew)",
        "Jesus Christ; right of the central figure: S/ XC; [Transcription] S[ANCTUS]/ XC[hristus]; Saint (refers to Mark)",
        "Christ; right of rightmost figure: MARCUS; [Transcription] MARCUS; [Translation] Mark. On the lower register",
        "reading right to left and top to bottom: left of leftmost figure: S/IA/CO/b;[Transcription] S[ANCTUS] IACOB; [Translation] Saint James; left of the central figure: S; [Transcription] S[ANCTUS]; [Translation] Saint; right of the central figure: F; [Transcription] F[rancis]; [Translation] Francis; right of rightmost figure: SP/T;  [Transcription] S[ANCTUS] P[E]T[ER]; [Translation] Saint Peter."
    ],
    "med": "glass",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6200"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "454",
        "2115",
        "3663"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_47.5_Back_DD_T11.jpg",
    "mediaId": "061d9424ff361cba"
}