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    "localId": "22047",
    "label": "Lioness-Headed Goddess",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1560"
}

{
    "id": "22047",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1560",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lioness-Headed Goddess",
    "description": "Lioness goddesses were powerful deities. Most popular were Sakhmet and Wadjet, both closely related to the sun-god. Representations of lioness-headed goddesses should protect their owner or donor. This amulet displays a female goddess standing in a long dress. She has a lioness head and a long wig. The loop of the pendant is on top of her head. Identification of a specific goddess is difficult but it is likely that Wadjet is displayed because most other lioness-headed goddesses would have had an additional crown. Either such a specification was not necessary because the owner would have known which goddess was represented, or the amulet was meant to include all variations of lioness goddesses.",
    "provenance": "Sheikh Ismael [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 7th-late 4th century BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1560",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "amulets",
        "pendants",
        "amulet-pendants"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1560_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1560_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1560_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.7,
            "height": 1.6,
            "depth": 0.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H without mount: 2 1/4 x W: 5/8 x D: 5/16 in. (5.72 x 1.61 x 0.8 cm); Mount H: 5/8 in. (1.65 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "26th-30th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with green-blue glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_48.1560_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "272b5ce63729f616"
}