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{
    "localId": "32109",
    "label": "Baboon (?)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.525"
}

{
    "id": "32109",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.525",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Baboon (?)",
    "description": "This crudely carved figure of a seated monkey, perhaps a baboon has traces of crossed lines on the base, and was probably used as a seal.",
    "provenance": "MacGregor Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; MacGregor Sale, Sotheby, Wilkenson & Hodge, London, June 29, 1922, lot 708; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.525",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "figurines",
        "seals"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.525_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.525_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.525_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2,
            "height": 0.1,
            "depth": 0.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3/4 x W: 1/16 x D: 5/16 in. (1.95 x 0.1 x 0.75 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "monkey molar",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_71.525_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ed5e0c9a413aa35d"
}