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    "localId": "35353",
    "label": "Lamp",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.640"
}

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    "id": "35353",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.640",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lamp",
    "provenance": "[Excavated in Syria, 1908-1910]; Tawfic Abucasem, Hama and Port Said, ca. 1913, by purchase; Joseph Brummer, Paris, ca. 1928, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "602-610 (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.640",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "lamps"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.8,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 13/16 x 6 1/2 in. (14.8 x 16.5 cm) (h. x diam.);rim: 6 7/16 in. (16.3 cm) (diam.);foot: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm) (diam.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "inscriptions": "[Stamp] Five stamps appear on the bottom of the lamp",
    "med": "silver",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "2699"
    ]
}

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