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    "localId": "34028",
    "label": "Intaglio with the Head of Athena Set in a Pin",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1149"
}

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    "id": "34028",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1149",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with the Head of Athena Set in a Pin",
    "description": "This intaglio depicts the helmeted head of the goddess Athena in profile to the left. She is wearing the helmet type of the Athena Parthenos, a gold and ivory statue carved by the sculptor Pheidias for the Parthenon in Athens in the 5th century BCE.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of purchase unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "18th-19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1149",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "pins",
        "intaglio"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.1149_Back_DD_T17-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.1149_Back_DD_T17-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.7,
            "height": 1.3,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11/16 × W: 1/2 × D: 3/16 in. (1.7 × 1.3 × 0.4 cm); H with mount: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "carnelian",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_42.1149_DD_T17-tms.jpg",
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