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{
    "localId": "4660",
    "label": "Carving of a Head of a Woman Set in a Mount",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.190"
}

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    "id": "4660",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.190",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Carving of a Head of a Woman Set in a Mount",
    "description": "This head of a woman, possibly Queen Arsinoe II (316-270 BCE), is shown frontally. The mount resembles a veil.",
    "provenance": "Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, London, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Carmichael sale, Sotheby's, London, June 1926, p. 42, no. 375 (547); Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd century BCE (Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.190",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "gems",
        "figurines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_42.190_Fnt_TR_T88II.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_42.190_Fnt_TR_T88II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.2,
            "height": 1.5,
            "depth": 1.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "7/8 x 9/16 x 9/16 in. (2.2 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Ptolemaic",
    "med": "amethyst, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2237",
        "3294"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_42.190_Fnt_TR_T88II.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c7377517a70edb7f"
}