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    "localId": "36859",
    "label": "Horus Trampling Antelope-Form Seth",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2069"
}

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    "id": "36859",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2069",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Horus Trampling Antelope-Form Seth",
    "description": "This bronze statuette shows the falcon-headed god Horus trampling an antelope. The antelope, a desert animal sometimes associated with Horus's uncle Seth, is depicted in relief on the top of the base beneath Horus's two feet. According to ancient Egyptian mythology, Horus and Seth fought over who would become king following the death of Osiris, who was Horus's father and Seth's brother. A spear, once held in Horus's outstretched hands but now missing, would have pierced the antelope's head.  The deity wears a pleated shendyt-kilt with an elaborate belt and the hemhem-crown.",
    "provenance": "Khawam Brothers, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 664 BC-404 BCE (Late Period, 26th-27th dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2069",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2069_Back_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 30.3,
            "height": 6.7,
            "depth": 17.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 15/16 x W: 2 5/8 x D: 6 7/8 in. (30.3 x 6.7 x 17.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "bronze",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3193"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.2069_Lft_DD_T12.jpg",
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