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    "localId": "32564",
    "label": "Amphoriskos",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.33"
}

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    "id": "32564",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.33",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Amphoriskos",
    "description": "Glass became very popular in the New Kingdom and although glass-making was not discovered by the Egyptians, they soon learned how to make glass. Glass inlays and vessels, such as this one, were precious and a luxury article. This piece has a blue body, two small loop handles, and a round bottom. The banded decoration is yellow and white.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1390-1213 BCE (New Kingdom, late 18th-19th Dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.33",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Glasswares",
        "vessels"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_47.33_Fnt_SL_X66.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.1,
            "height": 6.1,
            "depth": 4.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (12.1 x 6.1 x 4.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "19th-21st Dynasty",
    "med": "glass",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "454"
    ]
}

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