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{
    "localId": "28847",
    "label": "Scaraboid Intaglio with a Frog Set in a Swivel Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.159"
}

{
    "id": "28847",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.159",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Scaraboid Intaglio with a Frog Set in a Swivel Ring",
    "description": "This scaraboid intaglio bears an image of a frog viewed from above.",
    "provenance": "Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1909, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, lot 14 [as from Rhodes]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 6th-mid 5th century BCE (Late Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.159",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "gems",
        "ring"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.159_Fnt_TR_H74II.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.159_Fnt_TR_H74II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Greek]: NAV"
    ],
    "med": "rock-crystal or chalcedony; mount: gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_42.159_Fnt_TR_H74II.jpg",
    "mediaId": "5010ef862ba55123"
}