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{
    "localId": "25527",
    "label": "Handle Depicting a Lion and a Tigress Attacking a Bull",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.872"
}

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    "id": "25527",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.872",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Handle Depicting a Lion and a Tigress Attacking a Bull",
    "description": "Echoing the monumental Archaic sculpture of the Acropolis of Athens, this image symbolized power and domination. A lion and a tigress attack a bull, which has been brought to its knees. The animals' eyes are inlaid with silver. The group would have served as the handle of an elaborate bronze bowl.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-late 1st century BCE (Classical-Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.872",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "handles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.872_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.872_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.872_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.9,
            "height": 15.1,
            "depth": 2.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 1/8 x 5 15/16 x 15/16 in. (7.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm);mount: 1 1/4 x 6 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (3.1 x 16.2 x 4.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "style": "Archaic",
    "med": "bronze with silver inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.872_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "3fe1f45d40a1dcc2"
}