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    "localId": "38040",
    "label": "Beaker of Nesi-Khons",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.411"
}

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    "id": "38040",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.411",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Beaker of Nesi-Khons",
    "description": "The inscription on the cup contains the name of the \"great chieftainess of the harem of Amen, Nesi-Khons,\" the wife of the high priest of Amen at Thebes, Pinodjem II. The beaker was found with 63 others in the famous cache of the royal mummies at Deir el-Bahari (Thebes).",
    "provenance": "Rev. William MacGregor, Tamworth, Staffordshire, by 1898; Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 26-29 and July 4-6, 1922, no. 252; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 973 BC (Third Intermediate Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.411",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "beakers (drinking vessels)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.1,
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/8 x W: 2 3/4 in. (6.1 x 7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] On the cup: great chieftainess of the harem of Amen",
        "Nesi-Khons"
    ],
    "dynasty": "21st Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "10"
    ]
}

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