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    "localId": "32236",
    "label": "Group of 16 Amulets Strung as a Necklace",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1685-1699"
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    "id": "32236",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1685-1699",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Group of 16 Amulets Strung as a Necklace",
    "description": "This group of amulets were strung in modern times to a necklace that follows the order of an amulet necklace found on a mummy in the Faiyum. On this string are 8 \"djed\" pillars (symbols of Osiris), Thoth, figures of Horus, two figures of Re, a \"wadj\" (papyrus scepter, symbolizing resurrection), Nephthys, and Khnum. The combination of amulets without an amulet of Isis and only one \"wadj\" makes it likely that these amulets come from a larger context such as a mummy net or amulet ensemble of a deceased, and not from a single necklace.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "6th century BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1685-1699",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "amulets",
        "pendants"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm) max.1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm) min."
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "26th-27th Dynasty",
    "med": "faience with blue glaze",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513",
        "3038"
    ]
}

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