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{
    "localId": "37305",
    "label": "The Israelites Worship the Golden Calf and Moses Breaks the Tablets (Exodus 32:1-19)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.13R"
}

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    "id": "37305",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.13R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Israelites Worship the Golden Calf and Moses Breaks the Tablets (Exodus 32:1-19)",
    "description": "This scene from Walters manuscript W.106 depicts a moment when the Israelites were in the desert after their escape from Egypt. Moses (shown here with horns, a sign of his encounter with divinity) had been on Mount Sinai, alone, receiving instructions from God. The Israelites strayed from faith in God in his absence",
    "provenance": "Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 6, 1903, by purchase [see The Diaries of George Lucas]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1250 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.13R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.13r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.13r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.13r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 13.2,
            "height": 9.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 3/16 x W: 3 3/4 in. (13.2 x 9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] When Moses went to the mountain to receive the Law",
        "God said to him: 'Go down. Your people sin.' Moses descended and saw his people adoring a calf",
        "which they made of gold and silver. When he saw this",
        "he grew angry at them [and] hurled his tablets against the rock so that they broke; [Transliteration] Cum moyses fu al munt p[our] receivre la lei de[u] lu dit dece[n]de tun peple pecche. moysen d[e]se[n]d li vit sun peple aurer un veel q[u'i]l aveint fet d[']or e d[']argent. q[ua]nt ceo vit",
        "li se corra",
        "rua sa tables encuntre la roche q[u'i]l debruser[en]t."
    ],
    "med": "ink and pigment on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3408",
        "3408"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.106.13r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f799c6416c024d02"
}