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    "localId": "32548",
    "label": "Ostrakon with Sketches",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.320"
}

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    "id": "32548",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.320",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ostrakon with Sketches",
    "description": "The front of this ostracon shows a preparatory drawing for a funerary ritual scene, while the back has sketches of vessels and cult objects.",
    "provenance": "Anonymous Dealer, Luxor, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Donald N. Wilber, 1930-1935, by purchase [from Antiquities dealer in Luxor, Egypt]; Margaret S. Wilber [wife of Donald N. Wilber], 1997, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1998, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1550-1186 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th–19th dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.320",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Stone",
        "ostraka",
        "sketches"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.6,
            "height": 13,
            "depth": 2.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 15/16 x W: 5 1/8 x D: 1 in. (12.6 x 13 x 2.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th Dynasty",
    "med": "paint on limestone",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3193"
    ]
}

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