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    "localId": "21584",
    "label": "Bust of an Empress",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2294"
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    "id": "21584",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2294",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bust of an Empress",
    "description": "Steelyard weights shaped like the bust of an empress were common in the early Byzantine period.",
    "provenance": "Piero Tozzi, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1945, by purchase.",
    "date": "5th century (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2294",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.8,
            "height": 6.1,
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 5/8 x W: 2 3/8 x D: 1 3/4 in. (11.8 x 6.1 x 4.5 cm)"
}

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