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    "localId": "23662",
    "label": "Cameo with Europa and the Bull Set in a Mount",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.135"
}

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    "id": "23662",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.135",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cameo with Europa and the Bull Set in a Mount",
    "description": "This intaglio depicts Europa, the Phoenician princess, seated on Zeus transformed into a bull running to the left.",
    "provenance": "Charles Newton-Robinson, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, p. 15, lot. 48 [as from Egypt]; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century BCE-2nd century CE (Hellenistic-Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.135",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "cameos"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_42.135_NF_3853-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.4,
            "height": 4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 1 5/16 x 1 9/16 in. (3.4 x 4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "onyx; mount: gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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