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{
    "localId": "24801",
    "label": "New Year's Flask",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.419"
}

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    "id": "24801",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.419",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "New Year's Flask",
    "description": "This lentil-shaped New Year's flask has two small baboons that appear at either side of the neck atop a band of hieroglyphic inscriptions. Such flasks may once have held a liquid used in a ceremony to mark the beginning of the new agricultural year, which began in late summer, when the Nile River began to flood.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 7th-mid 6th century BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.419",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "flasks (bottles)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.419_MrkRt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.419_MrkRt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.419_MrkRt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.5,
            "height": 12.2,
            "depth": 6.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 11/16 x W: 4 13/16 x D: 2 5/8 in. (14.5 x 12.2 x 6.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "26th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with green and blue glazes",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_48.419_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "mediaId": "7a10a85f9f695f97"
}