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{
    "localId": "30822",
    "label": "Belly Amphora with the Reclamation of Helen and Herakles and Kerberos",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.16"
}

{
    "id": "30822",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.16",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Belly Amphora with the Reclamation of Helen and Herakles and Kerberos",
    "description": "In another of his labors, Herakles has returned from the underworld with Kerberos, the multi-headed dog who guards its entrance, while the messenger-god Hermes leads the way, with two women looking on. On the back, a warrior draws his sword on a modestly veiled woman in the presence of two onlookers; this scene has been identified as Menelaos' recovery of Helen after the capture of Troy.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, before 1897, no. 189; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "540-530 BCE (Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.16",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "amphorae (storage vessels)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.16_SideA_DD_T08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.16_SideA_DD_T08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.16_SideA_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 48.2,
            "height": 32.1,
            "depth": 20.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 19 x W: 12 5/8 x Diameter at rim: 7 15/16 in. (48.2 x 32.07 x 20.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "style": "Attic",
    "med": "terracotta; black figure",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2067"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2089"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_48.16_SideB_DD_T08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "addb02256a870346"
}