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{
    "localId": "21632",
    "label": "Incense Burner in the Form of a Female Head",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2525"
}

{
    "id": "21632",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2525",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incense Burner in the Form of a Female Head",
    "description": "Incense burners in this form were used to burn frankincense. The absence of burn marks on this example indicates that it was probably a burial gift. The maiden is probably the goddess Kore (Persephone) who, with her mother Demeter, was deeply revered in South Italy.",
    "provenance": "Sale, Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 13 December 1982, p. 45, lot 173. Dr. Frederick G. Stern, Potomac, MD, by 1984, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, December, 1985, by gift.",
    "date": "3rd century BCE (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2525",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "incense burners",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_48.2525_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_48.2525_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_48.2525_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.5,
            "height": 12.1,
            "depth": 11
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 7/8 x 4 3/4 x 4 5/16 in. (17.5 x 12.1 x 11 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "terracotta with paint",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2237"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 6,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_48.2525_3QtrRT_DD_T14.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d5325728e4f17a7a"
}