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{
    "localId": "23897",
    "label": "Female Fertility Finial",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.121"
}

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    "id": "23897",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.121",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Female Fertility Finial",
    "description": "This piece adopts the traditional Near Eastern image of a nude female figure, holding her breasts in her hands. Cock heads sprout from each shoulder.",
    "provenance": "[Found in Nevahend, Persia (?)]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "8th-7th century BCE (Iron Age)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.121",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "finials"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.121_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.121_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.121_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.5,
            "height": 5.3,
            "depth": 2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 11/16 x 2 1/16 x 13/16 in. (14.5 x 5.3 x 2 cm)"
}

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    "med": "cast bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6747"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.121_Fnt_DD_T14.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f4a029ef65928e9f"
}