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    "localId": "23114",
    "label": "Sacrifice of a Lion",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.50"
}

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    "id": "23114",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sacrifice of a Lion",
    "description": "Two nude bearded men, wearing helmets and followed by a third helmeted warrior bearing a shield, lead a lion secured by a double leash before a nude man (Mars (?)), who sits on a rock to the left and is armed with a sword. Shrubs and bushes are scattered in the background.The plaque could have been inset in a casket which no longer exists.",
    "provenance": "Thewalt Collection Sale, Cologne, November 14, 1903, lot 993; Jacques Seligmann, Paris, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1535-1540 (late Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.50",
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    "language": "en",
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.2,
            "height": 15.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 13/16 x W: 6 1/8 in. (7.2 x 15.6 cm)"
}

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