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{
    "localId": "2396",
    "label": "Intaglio with the Head of an African",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.160"
}

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    "id": "2396",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.160",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with the Head of an African",
    "description": "This intaglio shows the head of an African in profile to the right.",
    "provenance": "Charles Newton-Robinson, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, p. 8, lot. 17 [as from Cyprus]; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "5th century BCE (Late Archaic-Classical)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.160",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "intaglios",
        "beads"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.160_3Qtr_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.5,
            "height": 1.1,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9/16 x W: 7/16 x D: 3/8 in. (1.5 x 1.1 x 1 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "black jasper",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "2d7a2c6d83e3eed5"
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