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{
    "localId": "3396",
    "label": "Juvenile God with a Sun Disk",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1979"
}

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    "id": "3396",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1979",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Juvenile God with a Sun Disk",
    "description": "Each morning, the sun was reborn into the world, often in the form of a young child like the one represented in this pendant. Here, the sun child wears an elaborate necklace and sun disk with a protective uraeus snake on his head. On the right side of his head, he wears a braided ponytail (part of which is now missing). This \"side-lock of youth\" was a common hairstyle for children in ancient Egypt.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as from the Pyramids]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 664-404 BCE (Late Period, 26th-27th dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1979",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "statuettes (statues)",
        "figurines",
        "amulets",
        "pendants",
        "amulet-pendants"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_54.1979_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_54.1979_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.2,
            "height": 2.3,
            "depth": 3.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 5/8 x W: 7/8 x D: 1 7/16 in. (9.2 x 2.3 x 3.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "cast bronze cast with gold inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3193",
        "3240"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_54.1979_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "0540098b8c5ea6d5"
}