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{
    "localId": "32929",
    "label": "Man with a Hunched Back",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.744"
}

{
    "id": "32929",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.744",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Man with a Hunched Back",
    "description": "Although tunics were usually worn by laborers (enslaved or free), the subject here may be a theatrical performer who raises his arms in a dancing gesture.",
    "provenance": "Giovanni Dattari, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Lambros and Dattari Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 1912, no. 441, p. 51; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2nd-1st century BC (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.744",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.744_Rt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.744_Rt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.744_Rt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "imageCount": 12,
    "pageCount": 12,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.3,
            "height": 5.7,
            "depth": 3.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 5/8 x W: 2 1/4 x D: 1 3/8 in. (9.3 x 5.7 x 3.5 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "cast bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC",
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2237"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.744_3QtrLftB_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d93bf6411fea87c6"
}