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{
    "localId": "40380",
    "label": "Harpokrates (Horus the Child) Pendant",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.198"
}

{
    "id": "40380",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.198",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Harpokrates (Horus the Child) Pendant",
    "description": "This mold-made pendant of royal blue, glass-like faience (?) with some carved detail represents Horus-the-Child seated, knees drawn up, holding a broken flail over his left shoulder. Behind the neck is a loop for suspension. The right arm and leg are missing.",
    "provenance": "Collection of Lord Carmichael of Skirling [a few miles north of Biggar, Scotland]; Antiquities of the Collection of the Late Lord Carmichael of Skirling Sale, Sotheby and Company, London, June 9, 1926, p. 24, lot 245 (79); Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 16th-early 11th century BCE (New Kingdom)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.198",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "pendants",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.198_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.198_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.198_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.2,
            "height": 1,
            "depth": 1.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/4 x W: 3/8 x D: 5/8 in. (3.15 x 1.03 x 1.55 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th-20th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "454",
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_42.198_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "518c1de88a4074b5"
}