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    "localId": "3825",
    "label": "Athena with an Owl",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.766"
}

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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Athena with an Owl",
    "description": "A maidenly and surprisingly modest Athena bends her head forward. Perched on her hand is an owl, the emblem of her wisdom. Her war-like aspect is downplayed here, although her upraised left hand once held a staff or spear, and she wears a helmet crowned by a sphinx. The simplicity of the figure heightens appreciation of the artist's skill.",
    "provenance": "Henri Leman, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase [Joseph Brummer as agent; Brummer  inv. no. X401]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 450 BC (Classical)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.766",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "figurines"
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.5,
            "height": 7.9,
            "depth": 3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 11/16 x 3 1/8 x 1 3/16 in. (14.5 x 7.86 x 3 cm)"
}

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    "med": "solid cast bronze",
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    ]
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