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{
    "localId": "33920",
    "label": "Steelyard Weight",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2654"
}

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    "id": "33920",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2654",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Steelyard Weight",
    "description": "This rare, bronze counterweight was used with a steelyard. Filled with lead, it would have been moved along the calibrated arm of the scales until the beam balanced. This large weight is distinguished by its unusual subject of a young man in a long-sleeved tunic holding a small animal, possibly a lamb; it may therefore have been used by a butcher.",
    "provenance": "Michael Ward, New York, ca. 1977, by purchase; L. Alexander Wolfe, Jerusalem [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sale, Frank Sternberg, Zurich, November 20, 1989, no. 423; Walters Art Museum, 1989, by purchase.",
    "date": "5th century (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2654",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "weights"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2654_Back_DD_T10.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2654_Back_DD_T10.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21.9,
            "height": 12.5,
            "depth": 10.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 5/8 x W: 4 15/16 x D: 4 in. (21.9 x 12.5 x 10.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "med": "bronze filled with lead",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.2654_3QtrLft_DD_T10.jpg",
    "mediaId": "2acef683315aeb77"
}