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    "localId": "26531",
    "label": "King Shahpur and His Vizier, Dastur, Visit a Hermit",
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    "id": "26531",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.627.17B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "King Shahpur and His Vizier, Dastur, Visit a Hermit",
    "description": "On this folio from Walters manuscript W.627, King Shahpur and his vizier, Dastur, are depicted kissing the hand and foot of a hermit. Such gestures show deep respect for the wise man who has renounced the material world.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [bookplate]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "881 AH/AD 1476",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.627.17B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.5,
            "height": 12
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/16 x W: 4 3/4 in. (20.5 x 12 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "style": "Shiraz",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid Persian laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "8016"
    ],
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