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    "localId": "24293",
    "label": "Seated Bastet",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1542"
}

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    "id": "24293",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1542",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Seated Bastet",
    "description": "The lion-headed cat-goddess Bastet, daughter of the sun god, holds a sistrum-a rattle used in rituals.",
    "provenance": "Sheikh Ismael [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "early 11th-late 8th century BCE (Third Intermediate Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1542",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "pendants",
        "amulets",
        "amulet-pendant"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.4,
            "height": 1.2,
            "depth": 2.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 1/8 x W: 7/16 x D: 1 1/16 in. (5.38 x 1.16 x 2.62 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "21st-22nd Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with blue-green glaze",
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