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{
    "localId": "31590",
    "label": "Wedding Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1824"
}

{
    "id": "31590",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1824",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Wedding Ring",
    "description": "Wedding rings are often inscribed; this example features inscriptions in several languages. One cameo of the Roman ring is inscribed with the Greek \"EYTYXI\" (Good luck) and its hoop with the Latin \"DVLCIS VIVAS\" (Live sweetly). The other cameo depicts an elaborate ship, a symbol of the church. Its bezel resembles a fingernail, which suggests that it was worn near the tip of the finger, perhaps just above the third joint.",
    "provenance": "Alessandro Castellani, Rome, by 1883, [mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from France]; sale, Collection Alessandro Castellani: Objets d'art antiques, Rome, March 17-April 10, 1884, lot 924, illust.; E. Guilhou, Paris, by 1912, by purchase [no. 439 in 1912 catalogue]; Sale, Superb Collection of Rings Formed by the Late Monsieur E. Guilhou, London, Sotheby & Co., November 9, 1937, lot 406, pl. 14; Jacob Hirsch, New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1945, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N6212]; Joseph Brummer Sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 12, 1949, lot 254; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "3rd-4th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1824",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "finger rings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.1824_3Qtr_BW_C79.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.1824_3Qtr_BW_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.1824_3Qtr_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.9,
            "height": 1.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/8 x W: 9/16 in. (2.86 x 1.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription",
        "Greek] EYTYXI; [Inscription",
        "Latin] DVLCIS VIVAS [Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum XIII.3(2) 10024.63"
    ],
    "med": "gold, cameos",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1954",
        "2054",
        "2227",
        "2513",
        "2542",
        "2704"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_57.1824_3Qtr_BW_C79.jpg",
    "mediaId": "670992abcbd73c84"
}