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    "localId": "25114",
    "label": "Sacrifice of a Boar",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.31"
}

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    "id": "25114",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.31",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sacrifice of a Boar",
    "description": "A priest draped in a short garment, holds in his left hand the hind legs of a boar and the culter (a knife) in his right. Behind a round altar rises the image of the god, or more probably of the hero, to whom the nocturnal sacrifice is offered.",
    "provenance": "Sale, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, April 21, 1902 (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1540-1550 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.31",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "plaques"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.6,
            "height": 5.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 13/16 x W: 2 3/16 in. (4.6 x 5.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "painted enamel on copper",
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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