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    "localId": "2510",
    "label": "Part of a Necklace",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.541"
}

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    "id": "2510",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.541",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Part of a Necklace",
    "description": "The Roman practice of mounting gold coins as jewelry continued in the Early Byzantine period with this section from a necklace. The other half would have been a mirror image, with gold and lapis lazuli \"double-cone\" beads and two more coins of Emperor Maurice Tiberios (ruled 582-602). The cross pendant, seen here with a glass bead, may once have contained a precious stone.",
    "provenance": "[Found in Upper Egypt]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 582-602 (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.541",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "necklaces"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.541_Fnt_NF_H46.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.541_Fnt_NF_H46.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20,
            "height": 2.6,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 7/8 x W: 1 1/16 x D: 3/8 in. (20 x 2.6 x 1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "reign": "Maurice (AD 582-602)",
    "med": "gold, lapis lazuli, and glass",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "BYZ",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "2513"
    ]
}

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