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    "localId": "33154",
    "label": "Standing Ibis Headed God",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1423"
}

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    "id": "33154",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1423",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Standing Ibis Headed God",
    "description": "Thoth, the god of wisdom and patron deity of scribes, was often shown with a human body and an ibis head. Here he wears a shendit-kilt, a long wig, and the moon-disk and crescent as a crown on his head. His left foot is missing. Silver figures such as this were precious and used by the elite.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [found at Pyramids]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 945-664 BCE (Third Intermediate Period, 22nd-25th dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1423",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "figurines",
        "amulet-pendant"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.1423_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.1,
            "height": 1.6,
            "depth": 2.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 13/16 x W: 5/8 x D: 7/8 in. (7.1 x 1.6 x 2.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "22nd-25th Dynasty",
    "med": "silver cast",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513",
        "3193",
        "3240"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.1423_Back_DD_T08.jpg",
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}