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    "localId": "24320",
    "label": "Harpokrates (Horus the Child)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1975"
}

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    "id": "24320",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1975",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Harpokrates (Horus the Child)",
    "description": "Harpokrates is shown seated, although his original seat has been lost. He places his right index finger at his mouth in the customary gesture of childhood and has a sidelock of youth. He wears a royal headcloth with uraeus and a large hemhem crown; aside from an engraved collar, he is otherwise nude. The eyes are inlaid with silver.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be \"\"from the Pyramids]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 8th-mid 4th century BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1975",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "bronze; silver inlaid eyes",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
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