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    "localId": "2405",
    "label": "Star Tile with Combat Scene",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1288"
}

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    "id": "2405",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1288",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Star Tile with Combat Scene",
    "description": "The Persian verses written around the outer blue band come from the Shahnama (Book of Kings), the national epic of Iran, and specifically from a section of the text that recounts the tragic combat between the great hero Rustam and his son Sohrab.  It is unlikely, however, that the two men fighting in the center of this tile are meant to illustrate the Shahnama text.",
    "provenance": "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": "2nd half 13th century (Ilkhanid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1288",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "tiles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.1288_Fnt_TR_T96III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.1288_Fnt_TR_T96III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.1288_Fnt_TR_T96III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.6,
            "height": 20.4,
            "depth": 1.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/8 × W: 8 1/16 × D: 9/16 in. (20.6 × 20.4 × 1.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Iranian-Islamic",
    "style": "Sultanabad",
    "dynasty": "Ilkhanid Dynasty",
    "med": "fritware with underglaze-painted and overglaze luster decoration",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6747"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "13",
        "2605",
        "305"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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