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    "localId": "28180",
    "label": "Amphora with Scenes of the Hermes and Dionysus",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.11"
}

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    "id": "28180",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.11",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Amphora with Scenes of the Hermes and Dionysus",
    "description": "The vase painter known as \"The Affecter\" had a long career, beginning before 550 BCE and lasting into the 520s. His style is one of the most easily recognized in all of Greek vase-painting, characterized by thick figures with tiny heads and exaggerated, angular joints. Both sides of the amphora show scenes of the messenger-god Hermes leading the wine-god Dionysus towards a woman (perhaps Ariadne, wife of Dionysus) who welcomes them, in the company of satyrs.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [no. 218]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 540-530 BCE (Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.11",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "amphorae (storage vessels)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.11_SideB_DD_T07.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.11_SideB_DD_T07.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 60,
            "height": 27
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 23 5/8 x Diam: 10 5/8 in. (60 x 27 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "style": "Attic",
    "med": "terracotta; black figure",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2722"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2672"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_48.11_SideA_DD_T07.jpg",
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