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    "localId": "26855",
    "label": "Pen Box and Inkwell",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.450"
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    "id": "26855",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pen Box and Inkwell",
    "description": "The wish found in the inscription: \"Glory, prosperity, wealth, happiness, well-being and abundance\" is formally expressed in the engraved decoration by a hexagram, at this time a symbol common to Islam and Christianity as well as Judaism. For Muslims it was associated with the potent sign on Solomon's seal (rather than David's shield), the magical power of whose shape could draw down divine protection.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 12th century",
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    "language": "en",
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.6,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 13/16 × W: 11 7/8 × D: 3 1/8 in. (4.6 × 30.2 × 7.9 cm)"
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{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] Glory",
        "prosperity",
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        "320",
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