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{
    "localId": "33600",
    "label": "Animal Leg",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.520"
}

{
    "id": "33600",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.520",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Animal Leg",
    "description": "Legs of game boards or boxes made in the shape of the haunch of a standing bull placed on a high-ribbed plinth are well known in this period. This piece is peculiar: the hoof is that of a reclining animal. It is placed on a plain plinth, the musculature is completely stylized, and the muscles are not marked on the inside. All of these peculiarities make the piece suspect.",
    "provenance": "MacGregor Collection [lot 678]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2680-2258 BCE (early Old Kingdom)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.520",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "feet",
        "fragments",
        "boxes (containers)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.520_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.520_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.520_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.2,
            "height": 1.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 5/8 x W: 1/2 in. (4.2 x 1.3 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "hippopotamus ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_71.520_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg",
    "mediaId": "679cb6321a13905b"
}