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    "localId": "28057",
    "label": "Intaglio with the Head of a Man",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.141"
}

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    "id": "28057",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.141",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with the Head of a Man",
    "description": "This intaglio shows the head of a man historically identified as the Roman emperor Vespasian (r. 69-79 CE) in profile to the right.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 1st century CE (Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.141",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "gems"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_42.141_Impr_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_42.141_Impr_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2,
            "height": 1.5,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "13/16 x 5/8 x 1/8 in. (2 x 1.5 x 0.4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "reign": "Vespasian (AD 69-79)",
    "med": "stone",
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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