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    "localId": "17422",
    "label": "Apis, Bull of Memphis",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.418"
}

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    "id": "17422",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.418",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Apis, Bull of Memphis",
    "description": "A scarab with wings is engraved on the bull's neck, and a saddle with two more pairs of wings are engraved on the back.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from the pyramids]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 7th-late 4th century BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.418",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.8,
            "height": 14.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 x L: 5 5/8 in. (17.8 x 14.3 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "cast bronze",
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    ],
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}

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