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    "localId": "20788",
    "label": "Bes",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.312"
}

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    "id": "20788",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.312",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bes",
    "description": "This figurine is of the God Bes.",
    "provenance": "Cynthia Wilson Compton, winter 1932, by puchase [in Egypt near Luxor]; Mr. and Mrs. Beverly C. Compton, Jr., Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1997, by gift.",
    "date": "10th-7th century BCE (Third Intermediate-early Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.312",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "figurines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_41.312_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_41.312_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.9,
            "height": 1.3,
            "depth": 0.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/8 x W: 1/2 x D: 1/4 in. (2.93 x 1.26 x 0.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "21st-26th Dynasty",
    "med": "steatite with green glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_41.312_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
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}