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    "localId": "32963",
    "label": "Two Priestesses of Apollo",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.139"
}

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    "id": "32963",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.139",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Two Priestesses of Apollo",
    "description": "One priestess is seated on a bench, her upper body sharply twisted to the left, as she plays a large lyre resting on the bench. The other stands in the right background, grasping a coiled serpent with open jaws. A large buckler rests on the ground in front.The source of the design may possibly have been a drawing or a painting inspired by a Roman mural rediscovered in the \"grotte\" of Rome.",
    "provenance": "Sale, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, April 21, 1902 (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1540-1550 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.139",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "plaques"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.2,
            "height": 3.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 5/8 x W: 1 5/16 in. (4.2 x 3.3 cm)"
}

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    "med": "painted enamels on copper",
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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