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    "localId": "32218",
    "label": "Plaque with Sybila Lvbica (Libyan Sibyl)",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.366B"
}

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    "id": "32218",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.366B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plaque with Sybila Lvbica (Libyan Sibyl)",
    "description": "One of a set of twenty-one plaques. The Libyan Sibyl carries a lighted torch alluding to the illumination of darkness at the advent of the Savior. In late medieval and renaissance iconography she was associated with Jeremias.",
    "provenance": "Beurdeley Sale,  April 9, 1883, no. 9; H. G. Marquand Sale, New York, Janaury 23, 1903, no. 1061.",
    "date": "1535-1540 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.366B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "plaques"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.7,
            "height": 10.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 15/16 x W: 4 3/16 in. (22.7 x 10.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "signed LL in black letters on a white tablet",
    "med": "enameled plaque in a gilt and silvered-copper screen",
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        "4231"
    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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