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    "localId": "38598",
    "label": "Mastos with Combat Scenes",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.223"
}

{
    "id": "38598",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.223",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mastos with Combat Scenes",
    "description": "This shape of drinking-cup is called a \"mastos\" and resembles a woman's breast. On the front, a soldier whose nudity signifies heroic status advances against two warriors dressed in short tunics; two heralds watch from either side. On the back, a nude warrior confronts a clothed one in a similar scene. Beneath the horizontal handle stands a siren, a mythical creature with a woman's head and a bird's body, whose powers included knowledge of the outcome of battles.",
    "provenance": "Sale, Catalogue des tableaux anciens, tableaux modernes, objets d'art et de haute curiosit'e, importantes tapisseries : composant la collection Engel-Gros, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May-1 June 1921, no. 38 [illust.]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1921, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 530 BCE (Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.223",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "cups (drinking vessels)",
        "mastoi"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.223_VwA_DD_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.3,
            "height": 18.2,
            "depth": 13.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 11/16 x  W: 7 3/16 x Diam: 5 3/16 in. (9.3 x 18.2 x 13.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "style": "Attic",
    "med": "terracotta; black figure",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2089"
    ]
}

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