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    "localId": "19536",
    "label": "Cylinder Seal with a Figure, Animals, and an Inscription",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.634"
}

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    "id": "19536",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.634",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cylinder Seal with a Figure, Animals, and an Inscription",
    "description": "Disproportionate to the point of being disfigured, a standing figure in long robe (cinched at waist) feeds two animals which look like reindeer-giraffe hybrids beneath a sun with rays emanating from it. The scene also includes three registers of cuneiform.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.",
    "date": "n.d.",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.634",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "cylinder seals"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.634_SideC_DD_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Anatolian?",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transliteration",
        "Cuneiform] 1. {d}ki-tir 2. ze2-er sza3 za 3. MI sza3-du [https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P272864]"
    ],
    "med": "black stone",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16254"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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