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    "localId": "34520",
    "label": "Cat",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2130"
}

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    "id": "34520",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2130",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cat",
    "description": "Representations of cats were popular in ancient Egypt, particularly in Bubastis, the cult center of the love- and fertility-goddess Bastet, who is represented either as a cat or as a woman with a cat's head. During the Late and Greco-Roman periods (6th-1st century BC), people donated cat figures (associated with fertility, love, and protection) to temples throughout Egypt. This cat is adorned with golden earrings, a beaded collar, and a necklace with a \"wedjat\"-eye pendant, which symbolizes the protection of the sun god.",
    "provenance": "\"\"Sheik of the Pyramids\"\", [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th century BCE (Late Period-Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2130",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2130_3Qtr_DD_T08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2130_3Qtr_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.8,
            "height": 6.4,
            "depth": 11.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 x W: 2 1/2 x D: 4 5/8 in. (17.78 x 6.35 x 11.75 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "bronze, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2173"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "aa8b1ade5b735b91"
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