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{
    "localId": "18537",
    "label": "Male Votive Figure of Baal",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.788"
}

{
    "id": "18537",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.788",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Male Votive Figure of Baal",
    "description": "This solid cast bronze figurine served as a votive offering, and represents the Canaanite war god, Baal, bringer of the autumnal rains and suppressor of the destructive flood waters. He probably wore a gold skirt and may have carried a mace in one of his clenched fists.",
    "provenance": "J. Gilbert, Paris, by 1903, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Collection de M. J. Gilbert, Antiquités recueillies en Syrie, Paris, 23-34 Jan. 1903; Dr. S. Pozzi, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Dr. S. Pozzi collection, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 26-27 June 1919, no. 379  [said to be from \"\"Chebaa, Judee\"\"]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "early 2nd millennium BCE (Middle Bronze Age (MB I/II A))",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.788",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "figurines",
        "votive images"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.788_Fnt_TR_T97.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.788_Fnt_TR_T97.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.788_Fnt_TR_T97.jpg",
    "imageCount": 11,
    "pageCount": 11,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.3,
            "height": 6.7,
            "depth": 4.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "9 3/16 x 2 5/8 x 1 7/8 in. (23.3 x 6.7 x 4.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Canaanite",
    "style": "Canaanite",
    "RelatedObjects": 9863,
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3930"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "34",
        "2200",
        "13"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.788_Lft_DD_T14.jpg",
    "mediaId": "3e1a48d1f0c95b48"
}