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    "localId": "23779",
    "label": "Beaked Oinochoe",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.96"
}

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    "id": "23779",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.96",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Beaked Oinochoe",
    "description": "An oinochoe is a vessel for pouring wine. On the shoulder is engraved: [A]NIOVM (Shuthin[a], in reverse, meaning \"sepulchral\"), indicating the object was consecrated in a tomb and was not to be used by the living. Adorning the top of the handle is a ram's head. The handle's base incorporates a relief of a satyr seated on a wall.",
    "provenance": "Mengi and Hakky Bey Collections, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "6th century BCE (Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.96",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "oinochoai",
        "vesselsoinochoe"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.96_Fnt_SL_C80.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.96_Fnt_SL_C80.jpg",
    "imageCount": 9,
    "pageCount": 9,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.5,
            "height": 15.4,
            "depth": 14.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "9 5/8 x 6 1/16 x 5 5/8 in. (24.5 x 15.4 x 14.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Etruscan",
    "inscriptions": "[Transcription] \"\"NIOVM\"\" & rams head",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6291"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.96_3Qtr_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "35f7a3417c452bae"
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