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{
    "localId": "35459",
    "label": "Scarab with a Hawk-Headed Figure Set in a Swivel Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.151"
}

{
    "id": "35459",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.151",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Scarab with a Hawk-Headed Figure Set in a Swivel Ring",
    "description": "This lapis lazuli scarab bears an image of a hawk-headed figure wearing a ram's-horn crown carved in intaglio on the underside. In the figure's left hand is a staff from which a lotus blossom dangles.",
    "provenance": "H. Hoffmann Collection, until 1899 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 3; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th century BCE (Late Period-early Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.151",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "scarabs",
        "finger rings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.151_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.151_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.151_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.1,
            "height": 1.7,
            "depth": 2.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7/16 x W: 11/16 x L: 13/16 in. (1.1 x 1.7 x 2.1 cm); Max. outer Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); Max. inner Diam: 7/8 in. (2.15 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "lapis lazuli; mount: gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_42.151_Bot_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "73e9da5915a5fc17"
}