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    "localId": "39814",
    "label": "Fibula",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.556"
}

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    "id": "39814",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.556",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fibula",
    "description": "This small fibula, inlaid with garnets, meerschaum (a white, clay-like material), and a central carnelian (a type of garnet), is of a type that developed in southern Russia and became very popular with both the Franks and Huns.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-5th century (Early Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.556",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "fibulae"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.556_Fnt_DD_T07.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 0.6,
            "height": 2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "1/4 x 13/16 in. (0.6 x 2 cm) (d. x diam.)"
}

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    "cul": "Hunnish",
    "med": "gold, garnets, carnelian, meerschaum",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7310"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "358",
        "2513",
        "2704"
    ]
}

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    "mediaId": "49b0a7e7a0e248ef"
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