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{
    "localId": "4415",
    "label": "Chest with Writing",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.271"
}

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    "id": "4415",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.271",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Chest with Writing",
    "description": "The front of this box shows a king making an offering to the crocodile-god Sobek. Above the scene is an inscription in demotic. The box may have been used in temple rituals.",
    "provenance": "[From the Faiyum]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic-Roman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.271",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Wood",
        "chests"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_61.271_LftSide_DD_T11.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_61.271_LftSide_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28.6,
            "height": 30,
            "depth": 35.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 1/4 x W: 11 13/16 x D: 14 in. (28.6 x 30 x 35.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] in Demotic",
    "med": "wood",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "GRC",
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3193"
    ]
}

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