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    "localId": "18835",
    "label": "Naos-sistrum",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.465"
}

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    "id": "18835",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.465",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Naos-sistrum",
    "description": "Depicted with cow features, the goddess Hathor was associated with sexuality, motherhood, and music. This sistrum, or rattle, is a masterwork of Egyptian faience, which is particularly fitting, as Hathor was also known as \"mistress of faience.\"",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 580-525 BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.465",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "sistra",
        "rattles"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.465_Fnt_TR_T02.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.465_Fnt_TR_T02.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 15.4,
            "height": 7.8,
            "depth": 3.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 1/16 x 3 1/16 x 1 3/8 in. (15.4 x 7.8 x 3.6 cm);mount: 1 13/16 x 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (4.5 x 7.3 x 5.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "26th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "850"
    ]
}

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