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    "localId": "35055",
    "label": "Necklace",
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    "id": "35055",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.544",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Necklace",
    "description": "Wealthy women in the Byzantine Empire favored elaborate necklaces such as these. Pearls and emeralds (from Egypt) were most highly prized, although amethysts evoked the imperial use of the color purple.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "5th-7th century (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.544",
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    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "necklaces"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.5,
            "height": 21,
            "depth": 0.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 7/8 x 8 1/4 x 5/16 in. (17.5 x 21 x 0.8 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "med": "gold, amethysts, green glass beads, and pearls",
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    ]
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