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    "localId": "27651",
    "label": "Twelve-sided Box",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.524"
}

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    "id": "27651",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.524",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Twelve-sided Box",
    "description": "This twelve-sided box is inlaid with gold and silver and engraved. It has a dome-shaped cover, a hinge with two legs at the back, and a lock on the front. A wide inscription in thuluth script is interspersed with roundels displaying horsemen on the body. Two inscription bands and similar roundels are on the cover.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, August 11, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 13th-early 14th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.524",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "boxes (containers)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.524_Fnt_BW_H70.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.7,
            "height": 26.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 1/8 x Diam: 10 9/16 in. (25.7 x 26.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Translation] around cover: May glory and victory be yours as long as sun and moon rise; may glory and constancy be yours as long as morning and evening \"\"rise.\"\"",
    "med": "brass, gold and silver inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3496"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "320",
        "503"
    ]
}

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