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    "localId": "40656",
    "label": "Tall-Stemmed Pyxis",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.2"
}

{
    "id": "40656",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tall-Stemmed Pyxis",
    "description": "This vessel likely held perfume and would have had a lid (now missing). Decoration on the exterior of the bowl, thought to be modern, shows a nude seated woman holding the reins of two hippocamps who are approaching a triton. Eros flies above the reins. The scene is identified as Amphitrite and Poseidon.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "5th-4th century BCE (Classical)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "pyxis"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_41.2_NF_3688-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_41.2_NF_3688-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "turned stone (alabaster); red, blue, green paint",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_41.2_NF_3688-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b655644f3dc0ac9e"
}