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    "localId": "39826",
    "label": "Tablet with Seal Impression",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1806"
}

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    "id": "39826",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1806",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tablet with Seal Impression",
    "description": "Before the writing was added, this tablet, a receipt, was marked with a cylinder seal dated to the reign of King Shulgi of Ur. Still visible are a standing figure of a worshiper with one hand raised and three lines of an inscription with the name of a scribe, suggesting that the seal may have belonged to the person who wrote the tablet.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.",
    "date": "2100-2050 BCE (Ur III)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1806",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "tablets"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.1806_Fnt_SL.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.5,
            "height": 4,
            "depth": 2.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 3/4 x W: 1 9/16 x D: 1 in. (4.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Mesopotamian",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] [For a transcription",
        "see https://cdli.ucla.edu/P118420]"
    ],
    "dynasty": "3rd Dynasty of Ur",
    "reign": "Shulgi (ca. 2094-2047)",
    "med": "baked clay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6353"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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