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    "localId": "23538",
    "label": "Mirror with Heracles, Dionysus, Ariadne, and Eros",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.85"
}

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    "id": "23538",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.85",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mirror with Heracles, Dionysus, Ariadne, and Eros",
    "description": "In order to create a reflective surface, the front of ancient mirrors were either highly polished or covered with a thin layer of silver. Engraved on the back of this mirror is a scene from the Greek myth of the marriage of Dionysus. The figures are identified by engraved inscriptions with the Etruscan names for Heracles (Herkle), Ariadne (Vesuna), Dionysus (Fufluns), and Eros (Svutaf?).",
    "provenance": "[Found at Fattoraccio, Castel Giorgio in the district of Orvieto, 1877]; Biagio Bucciosanti, Orvieto, 1877, by excavation. Alessandro Castellani, Rome, by 1883, [mode of acquisition unknown]; sale, Collection Alessandro Castellani: Objets d'art antiques, Rome, March 17-April 10, 1884, p. 36, lot 188. Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 325-300 BCE (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.85",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "mirrors"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.85_SideA_SL_T.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 19.3,
            "depth": 0.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "9 1/4 x 7 5/8 x 1/4 in. (23.5 x 19.3 x 0.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Etruscan",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] the Etruscan names for Heracles (Herkle)",
        "Ariadne (Vesuna)",
        "Dionysus (Fufluns)",
        "and Eros (Svutaf?)"
    ],
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6291"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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