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{
    "localId": "27019",
    "label": "Frog Amulet",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.193"
}

{
    "id": "27019",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.193",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Frog Amulet",
    "description": "This lively frog carefully carved from a piece of green stone is pierced lengthwise through the base. It may have served as a bezel for a ring or as a pendant on a necklace. Frogs were seen as animals which are related to fertility and creation.",
    "provenance": "Collection of Lord Carmichael of Skirling [a few miles north of Biggar, Scotland] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Antiquities of the Collection of the Late Lord Carmichael of Skirling Sale, Sotheby and Company, London, June 9, 1926, lot 244 (78); Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1550-1186 BCE (New Kingdom, Dynasty 18-19)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.193",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "amulets",
        "bezels",
        "pendants",
        "figurine"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.193_3Qtr_DD_T12.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.193_3Qtr_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.193_3Qtr_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.2,
            "height": 1.2,
            "depth": 1.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1/2 x W: 1/2 x D: 11/16 in. (1.2 x 1.2 x 1.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th-19th Dynasty",
    "med": "green stone, probably jasper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513",
        "3193"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 5,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_42.193_Lft_DD_T12.jpg",
    "mediaId": "3ba96a90f38ba33a"
}