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    "localId": "26392",
    "label": "Papposilenos Playing the Double Flute",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1076"
}

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    "id": "26392",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1076",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Papposilenos Playing the Double Flute",
    "description": "Papposilenus was an aged, semi-bestial companion of Dionysus. He is playing a double flute (restored). Both silens and satyrs were often depicted with this exotic instrument of Asian origin. According to Aristotle, the lyre calmed the emotions, but the flute excited them, as can be seen by the figure's lively and twisting pose.",
    "provenance": "Madame E. Warneck Collection Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 1905, no. 90; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd-2nd century BCE (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1076",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11,
            "height": 5.5,
            "depth": 5.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 5/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 1/16 in. (11 x 5.5 x 5.3 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "solid cast bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    ],
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        "2237"
    ]
}

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