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{
    "localId": "26826",
    "label": "The Nile God Hapy",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2135"
}

{
    "id": "26826",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2135",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Nile God Hapy",
    "description": "This plaque originally functioned as a decorative element that may have covered the door or lower part of a wooden shrine. It displays an image of the Nile god Hapy with an offering table in his arms. Hapy represented the Nile River and its fertilizing inundation. Hapy wears a crown of papyrus buds and blossoms, a collar, a divine beard, armlets and a narrow girdle with three ends in front, the characteristic costume of this god. The offering table has two water jars and two lotus plants, with more lotuses hanging from Hapy's left arm. A royal cartouche crowned with plumes and a sun-disk is in front of the legs of the god, but it is empty and does not contain the name of a king.",
    "provenance": "E. Hindamian, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1925, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P2068]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 747-525 BCE (Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, 25th-26th dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2135",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "sculpture (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2135_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2135_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28.6,
            "height": 10.3,
            "depth": 0.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 1/4 x W: 4 1/16 x D: 1/4 in. (28.58 x 10.32 x 0.64 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "25th-26th Dynasty",
    "med": "copper alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2360",
        "3193",
        "3240"
    ]
}

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    "mediaId": "f5ac8b847763403b"
}