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{
    "localId": "33662",
    "label": "Pendant Seal with Virgin and Supplicant",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1008"
}

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    "id": "33662",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1008",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pendant Seal with Virgin and Supplicant",
    "description": "The small, shell-shaped seal depicts the standing Virgin, whose hand is extended over a kneeling supplicant. The person's name is revealed by the accompanying inscription.",
    "provenance": "Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "12th century (?) (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1008",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "pendants",
        "seals"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.1008_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.1008_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.1008_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.8,
            "height": 1.3,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/8 x W: 1/2 x D: 1/8 in. (2.8 x 1.3 x 0.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transcription] Μ(ήτη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ  Θ(εοτόκ)ε βοηθι τὸν σὸν δούλ(ον) Ἰω(άννην); [Translation] Mother of God",
        "help your servant John"
    ],
    "med": "silver with gilt",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BYZ",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_57.1008_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c869b199f968caba"
}