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{
    "localId": "33411",
    "label": "Belt Clasp",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.104"
}

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    "id": "33411",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.104",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Belt Clasp",
    "description": "Although once considered to be part of a warrior's apparel, this type of heavy belt clasp is now understood to be part of a woman's apparel. This example was made from a large sheet of bronze, with a hook at one end and a sheath to attach a leather belt at the other.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th-9th century BCE (Iron Age)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.104",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "claps (fasteners)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.104_DetA_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.104_DetA_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.5,
            "height": 26.2,
            "depth": 15.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/8 x W: 10 5/16 x D: 6 in. (10.5 x 26.2 x 15.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Villanovan",
    "med": "hammered bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5714"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "b23dfcb59c3a8fc6"
}