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    "localId": "32088",
    "label": "Quatrefoil Fibula",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2943"
}

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    "id": "32088",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2943",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Quatrefoil Fibula",
    "description": "The quadruple spiral has a long history in the jewelry of Anatolia (present-day Turkey) and the Near East from around 3000 BCE. This variant was developed in Sicily and is found in numerous 8th-century burials in South Italy.",
    "provenance": "Private collection, Germany, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Fortuna Fine Arts Limited, New York, 1997; Walters Art Museum, 1997, by purchase.",
    "date": "9th-8th century BCE (Geometric)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2943",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "fibulae"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12,
            "height": 12,
            "depth": 2.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3/4 x W: 4 3/4 x D: 7/8 in. (12 x 12 x 2.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "South Italic",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3705"
    ],
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        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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