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{
    "localId": "17674",
    "label": "Knob with Incised Decoration",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.640"
}

{
    "id": "17674",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.640",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Knob with Incised Decoration",
    "description": "This thick conical piece has a dowel hole in the narrow end. Incised on the wide faces are \"sacred trees\" composed of tendrils and papyrus stalks. On the edges are lotus blossoms.",
    "provenance": "MacGregor Collection [lot 679]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "14th-13th century BCE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.640",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "finials"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.640_SideB_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.640_SideB_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.640_SideB_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2,
            "height": 1.7,
            "depth": 1.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13/16 x W: 11/16 x D: 7/16 in. (2.01 x 1.7 x 1.11 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Canaanite?",
    "med": "elephant ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15541"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_71.640_Rev_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8193545873f4e2ed"
}