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{
    "localId": "24369",
    "label": "Plaque with a Female Figure",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.34"
}

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    "id": "24369",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.34",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plaque with a Female Figure",
    "description": "This carving of a partially nude woman draped in a cloth was most likely used to decorate a piece of household furniture.  The plaque, found at Alexandria (in Northern Egypt), was buried in the earth for many centuries, causing the mottled and flaking appearance of the bone.",
    "provenance": "[Found in Alexandria]; Dikran Kelekian, Constantinople, Paris, and New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th century (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.34",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "plaques"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.34_Fnt_BW_H52.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.34_Fnt_BW_H52.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.34_Fnt_BW_H52.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 18.6,
            "height": 6.2,
            "depth": 2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "7 5/16 x 2 7/16 x 13/16 in. (18.6 x 6.2 x 2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Coptic",
    "med": "bone",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640",
        "6833"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "BYZ"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3164"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 4,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_71.34_Fnt_BW_H52.jpg",
    "mediaId": "250dc0dfe362d22c"
}