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    "localId": "23107",
    "label": "Nine Biblical Scenes",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.486"
}

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    "id": "23107",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Nine Biblical Scenes",
    "description": "The nine scenes carved in relief on this ivory panel, from left to right and top to bottom, are: the Entry into Jerusalem, the Holy Trinity, represented as the three angels who appeared to Abraham (Gen. 18:1-15), the Annunciation, the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, the Crucifixion,the Raising of Lazarus the Resurrection (the Harrowing of Hell, a composition in which Christ pulls Adam, Eve, and other souls out of Hell), the Transfiguration, and Pentacost.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase [in Constantinople]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "17th century (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.486",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.1,
            "height": 4.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (6.1 x 4.4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Russian",
    "dynasty": "House of Romanov",
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