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    "localId": "29914",
    "label": "Cameo with Head of Heracles to the Right",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.183"
}

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    "id": "29914",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.183",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cameo with Head of Heracles to the Right",
    "description": "This brown and white glass paste cameo is meant to mimic real banded stones, like sardonyx. The disc was carved to expose the different colors of glass. The head of Herakles is shown in profile to the right. He is bearded and wears the skin of the Nemean lion.",
    "provenance": "Charles Newton-Robinson, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, June 22, 1909, p. 21, no. 74; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century BCE-4th century CE (Hellenistic-Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.183",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "cameos"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_47.183_NF_3853-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_47.183_NF_3853-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "glass",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "454"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_47.183_NF_3853-tms.jpg",
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