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{
    "localId": "17709",
    "label": "Processional or Altar Cross",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.632"
}

{
    "id": "17709",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.632",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Processional or Altar Cross",
    "description": "Originally, this cross had \"pendelia\" (jewels, crosslets, or Greek letters) suspended from the four holes in its horizontal arms. Like other medium-sized crosses with a tang, this one could have been carried in procession or affixed in a stand, or both.",
    "provenance": "[Excavated in Syria, 1908-1910]; Tawfic Abucasem, Hama and Port Said, ca. 1913, by purchase; Joseph Brummer, Paris, ca. 1928, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd quarter 6th century (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.632",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "crosses (objects)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.632_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.632_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.632_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 40.2,
            "height": 20.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15 13/16 x W: 8 1/8 in. (40.2 x 20.6 cm); H without tang: 13 5/16 in. (33.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transcription] Κυριακὸς εὐξάμενος προσένεγκεν τῶ ἁγίω Σεργίω; [Translation] Having prayed",
        "Cyriacus presented [this] to Saint Sergius"
    ],
    "med": "silver, silver sulfide inlay and copper alloy repairs",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BYZ"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "2289",
        "2699"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.632_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ab41d25cebf7078d"
}