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    "localId": "26496",
    "label": "Athena",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.920"
}

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    "id": "26496",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.920",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Athena",
    "description": "This statuette is similar to the so-called Athena Giustiniani. Her missing upraised proper right hand would have held a staff or spear. Even at this small scale, the protective aegis is clearly rendered on her torso.",
    "provenance": "Forman Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Forman Collection Sale, 1899, no. 86; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "Original: 5th century BCE; Copy: 1st century BCE-3rd century CE (Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.920",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.920_Fnt_BW_H44.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.920_Fnt_BW_H44.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "cast bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191",
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "796"
    ]
}

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    "mediaId": "b18c056f811b6694"
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