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{
    "localId": "5409",
    "label": "Sacred Bull",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1671"
}

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    "id": "5409",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1671",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sacred Bull",
    "description": "Bulls with a silver triangle between their horns have been found in central Anatolian royal burials.  The collar and holes for a nose ring suggest that the animal may have been harnessed to a god's chariot.",
    "provenance": "Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [with so-called Yugo-Slavian hoard], New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 4th-3rd millennium BCE (Bronze Age)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1671",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "figurines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.1671_Fnt_SL_X76.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.1671_Fnt_SL_X76.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.2,
            "height": 10.6,
            "depth": 4.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 13/16 x 4 3/16 x 1 5/8 in. (7.2 x 10.6 x 4.1 cm)"
}

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    "med": "bronze, silver inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.1671_Rt_DD_T14.jpg",
    "mediaId": "44738ffd1a078e0e"
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