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    "localId": "23210",
    "label": "Foundation Tablet",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.222"
}

{
    "id": "23210",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.222",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Foundation Tablet",
    "description": "This tablet is plano-convex, with a cuneiform inscription of Sin-iddinam on two faces.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5019]; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.",
    "date": "1785-1778 BCE (Old Babylonian)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.222",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Stone",
        "tablets"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_41.222_VwA_UK.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_41.222_VwA_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_41.222_VwA_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.8,
            "height": 9.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 13/16 x W: 3 3/4 in. (14.8 x 9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Old Babylonian",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] on obverse: (For) Utu",
        "/ lord of justice of heaven and earth",
        "/ learned in decision",
        "/ the one who choses in favor of innocence",
        "/ the king of Ebabbar",
        "/ his king",
        "/ Sin-iddinam",
        "/ the shepherd who decorates everything / for Nippur",
        "/ the provider of Ur",
        "/ king of Larsa",
        "/ king of Sumer and Akkad",
        "/ the Ebabbar",
        "/ his beloved house",
        "; [Translation] On reverse:  for the sake of his life",
        "/ he built (it) / For abundant distant days / he enlarged that dwelling place. / With the thing that he (Sin-iddinam) has done",
        "/ (may) Utu",
        "/ rejoice. / A life of sweet things / (and) bright days / as a reward",
        "/ may he (Utu) give to him (Sin-iddinam)."
    ],
    "med": "limestone",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7023"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "ffea0709e1c672d2"
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