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    "localId": "17453",
    "label": "Seated Bastet",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1553"
}

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    "id": "17453",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1553",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Seated Bastet",
    "description": "The lion-headed cat-goddess Bastet, daughter of the sun god, holds a \"sistrum\"- a rattle used in rituals.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "early 11th-mid 8th century BCE (Third Intermediate Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1553",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "pendants",
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        "figurines"
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    "imageCount": 5,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.4,
            "height": 1,
            "depth": 2.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 1/8 x W: 3/8 x D: 1 1/8 in. (5.42 x 1.02 x 2.83 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "21st-22nd Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with blue glaze",
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