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{
    "localId": "37243",
    "label": "Ring with Dionysus",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1699"
}

{
    "id": "37243",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1699",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring with Dionysus",
    "description": "This massive gold ring has a convex bezel set with a garnet intaglio representing a young man crowned with an ivy wreath. This image could either be an image of the wine-god Dionysus or a portrait of King Ptolemy IV Philopator (221-204 BC) in the guise of this deity.",
    "provenance": "Morrison Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Morrison Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1898, lot 255; E. Guilhou, France, by 1912 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Guilhou no. 268]; Arthur Evans, Oxford, by 1938, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Evans inv. no. 76]; Jacob Hirsch, Munich, 1941 [executor of Evans' will]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "3rd century BCE (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1699",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "finger rings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.1699_Top_TR_T05II.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.1699_Top_TR_T05II.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.1699_Top_TR_T05II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.8,
            "height": 2.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 1/8 x 1 in. (2.8 x 2.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "garnet; ring: gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1954",
        "2054",
        "2227",
        "2513",
        "2704",
        "2237"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/RS423126_PS4_57.1699_DD_AT19_3582 2-hpr.jpg",
    "mediaId": "59362d7f42c3c84c"
}