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{
    "localId": "20491",
    "label": "Bacchus",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.23"
}

{
    "id": "20491",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.23",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bacchus",
    "description": "The youth with drapery around the hips and vine leaves in his hair is probably intended to represent Bacchus. The cross-hatched rear surface indicates that the plaque was glued to a wooden object. The top preserves its squared edge; all other sides are broken.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Constantinople and Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd-4th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.23",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "plaques (flat objects)",
        "fragments"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_71.23_Fnt_BW_2637.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_71.23_Fnt_BW_2637.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_71.23_Fnt_BW_2637.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Hellenistic",
    "med": "bone",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_71.23_Fnt_BW_2637.jpg",
    "mediaId": "65748def3973019b"
}