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    "localId": "3271",
    "label": "Scarab with a Centaur and Two Lions Set in a Swivel Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.157"
}

{
    "id": "3271",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.157",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Scarab with a Centaur and Two Lions Set in a Swivel Ring",
    "description": "This scarab bears an image of a centaur facing the right with a raised arm holding a club carved in intaglio. On the right are one complete lion with its head turned back and the foreparts of a second lion. A line border surrounds the image. The parts of the scarab's back are carefully articulated. Most Archaic Greek gems were carved in the form of a scarab beetle. The type is ultimately of Egyptian origin and is thought to have passed to the Greeks via the Phoenicians probably on the island of Cyprus, which served as a crossroads for the eastern Mediterranean. The intaglio design and careful articulation of the beetle suggest a date in the early 6th century BCE.",
    "provenance": "Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Collection of Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 14 [as from Idalion, Cyprus]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "6th century BCE (Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.157",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "rings",
        "intaglios",
        "scarabs"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.157_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.157_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.157_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.8,
            "height": 2.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11/16 x Diam: 13/16 in. (1.75 x 2.06 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "green basalt; mount: silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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