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    "localId": "19953",
    "label": "Kylix with Woman and Music Lesson",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.93"
}

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    "id": "19953",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.93",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kylix with Woman and Music Lesson",
    "description": "This red-figure kylix depicts a woman standing to the left in the tondo. She extends her right hand in which she holds a length of a wool that comes out of a kalathos on the ground before her. Behind on the upper right hangs a mirror. She wears a chiton, mantle, and fillet.On the front side are three youths in a music lesson. On the left, a youth sits to the right on a diphros holding a barbiton upright on his lap with his left hand and a plectron in the right which is attached to the instrument by a string. A bag hangs behind him. An older youth in the center sits frontally on a diphros, head to the left. In his outstretched right hand he has a staff, and in the left he holds a bag on his lap. Between them hangs a pair of sandals, one in profile, the other shown from the bottom. On the right another youth stands to the left, holding out a lyre in his right hand; a plectron hangs from a string attached to the lyre. All three wear a mantle and fillet.On the back three youths are again depicted in a music lesson. On the left, a youth playing auloi sits on a diphros in profile to the right. A pair of sandals hangs behind him as on the front. In the center another youth stands in profile to the left. A flute case and a bag hang between them. On the right, a third youth stands to the left holding out a lyre in his right hand; a plectron hangs from a string attached to it. All three wear mantle and fillet.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [1897 cat. no. 241]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 470-460 BC (Classical)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.93",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "kylikes"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.93_SideA_BW_T90.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.93_SideA_BW_T90.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.93_SideA_BW_T90.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.9,
            "height": 31.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H with handles: 3 7/8 x Diam with handles: 12 1/2 in. (9.9 x 31.7 cm); Diam at mouth: 9 9/16 in. (24.3 cm); Diam at foot: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "style": "Attic",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transcription; in the tondo to the left of the woman's head] ΗΟ ΠΑΙΣ [Translation] The boy[Transcription; in the front",
        "running horizontally slightly below the rim] ΗΟ ΠΑΙΣ ΚΑΛΟ[Σ] [Translation] The beautiful boy [Transcription; on the back",
        "running horizontally slightly below the rim] ΗΟ ΠΑΙΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ [Translation] The beautiful boy"
    ],
    "med": "terracotta",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6754"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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