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{
    "localId": "32755",
    "label": "Pendant, Horus the Child Seated",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1420"
}

{
    "id": "32755",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1420",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pendant, Horus the Child Seated",
    "description": "Pendants with representations of deities made of silver were precious in ancient Egypt. They had an amuletic function and were used by the elite. This pendant represents Harpokrates (Horus the Child) in a seated posture. The image follows the iconographical standard for this god- with the nude body, a uraeus (cobra serpent) on the forehead, a juvenile sidelock, and a collar around his neck. His feet rest on a rectangular base. Harpokrates was a very popular deity, especially in the first millennium BC, together with his powerful mother Isis.",
    "provenance": "Abemayor, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-3rd century BCE (Late Period (30th dynasty)-early Ptolemaic Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1420",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "pendants",
        "figurines",
        "amulets"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_57.1420_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_57.1420_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_57.1420_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.7,
            "height": 1.5,
            "depth": 2.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 7/8 x W: 9/16 x D: 7/8 in. (4.7 x 1.5 x 2.2 cm); H on mount: 1 15/16 x W: 11/16 x D: 1 3/16 in. (4.9 x 1.7 x 3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "30th-early Ptolemaic Dynasty",
    "med": "silver cast",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2172",
        "2513",
        "3193",
        "3240"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_57.1420_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "25c1f681ecfeb086"
}