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    "localId": "25433",
    "label": "Finial with Two Felines",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.115"
}

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    "id": "25433",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.115",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Finial with Two Felines",
    "description": "Finials for ceremonial standards and bridle bits with animal forms are characteristic of the metalwork produced by the hunter societies of Luristan ca. the 10th-8th century BCE. The life of the hunter is built around animals, as food, transportation, and the embodiment of the unfathomable forces of nature.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th-8th century BCE (Iron Age)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.115",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "finials"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.115_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 15,
            "height": 7,
            "depth": 1.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 7/8 x 2 3/4 x 11/16 in. (15 x 7 x 1.8 cm)"
}

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