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{
    "localId": "36490",
    "label": "Head of a Bull",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.791"
}

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    "id": "36490",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.791",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Head of a Bull",
    "description": "This head was attached to the rim of an enormous cauldron excavated at the Urartian fortress of Toprakkale.  The facial markings are characteristic of Urartian art of this period.",
    "provenance": "Kalebjian Freres, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1928, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P5463]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "8th-7th century BCE (Iron Age)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.791",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "figurines",
        "cauldrons"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.791_3QtrRtA_DD_T12.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.791_3QtrRtA_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.791_3QtrRtA_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.4,
            "height": 11.8,
            "depth": 10.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 7/8 x W: 4 5/8 x D: 4 1/8 in. (12.38 x 11.75 x 10.48 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Urartian",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6300",
        "5165"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3135"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.791_3Qtr_DD_T12.jpg",
    "mediaId": "bc3610307ad8132e"
}