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    "localId": "20756",
    "label": "Woman Holding an Egg",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.87"
}

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    "id": "20756",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.87",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Woman Holding an Egg",
    "description": "This woman holds out an object, perhaps an egg, which was an important Etruscan symbol of fertility and the afterlife.",
    "provenance": "C. and E. Canessa, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "490-480 BCE (Late Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.87",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "statuettes (statues)",
        "figurines"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 15.8,
            "height": 6.3,
            "depth": 6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 1/4 x W: 2 1/2 x D: 2 3/8 in. (15.8 x 6.3 x 6 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Etruscan",
    "med": "bronze",
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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