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{
    "localId": "27263",
    "label": "Silver Cup",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.631"
}

{
    "id": "27263",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.631",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Silver Cup",
    "description": "The interior, but not exterior surface of this bowl is finished, suggesting that it may have served as a liner to some other vessel.  This bowl may have been set into a mount or stand of another material (such as marble or ivory) and may have been used for pouring water, either for hand washing or baptism.",
    "provenance": "[Excavated in Syria, 1908-1910]; Tawfic Abucasem, Hama and Port Said, ca. 1913, by purchase; Joseph Brummer, Paris, ca. 1928, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid-late 6th century (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.631",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "cups (drinking vessels)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.631_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.631_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.631_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.3,
            "height": 11.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 11/16 x Diam: 4 1/2 in. (4.3 x 11.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "med": "silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BYZ"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "2699"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_57.631_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "3c740dee2a4707a4"
}