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    "localId": "36683",
    "label": "Economic Document",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2030"
}

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    "id": "36683",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2030",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Economic Document",
    "description": "This small tablet was part of the economic archives of the temple of the sky-god Anu and fertility-goddess Ishtar at Uruk. It records the stipend paid to Ardi-Inninni, son of Ibni-Ishtar of the business firm of Bel-ili on the 2nd day of the month of Tebet in the 6th year of the reign of King Nabonidus (ca. 549 BC).",
    "provenance": "Mrs. John Girwood [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1951, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 549 BC (Neo-Babylonian; Ur III)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2030",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "tablets"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.2030_VwA_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.2030_VwA_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.9,
            "height": 4,
            "depth": 1.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/8 x W: 1 9/16 x D: 5/8 in. (2.9 x 4 x 1.6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] [For a transcription",
        "see https://cdli.ucla.edu/P272889]"
    ],
    "reign": "Nabonidus (556-539 BC)",
    "med": "baked clay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7023"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2507"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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