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{
    "localId": "5562",
    "label": "Kouros Votive Figure",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.102"
}

{
    "id": "5562",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.102",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kouros Votive Figure",
    "description": "This statuette of a male figure has his arms by his sides and his left foot forward in the manner of a Greek Kouros, a type of statue that depicts a nude youth. This statuette is considered the earliest of the surviving bronzes from a large deposit of votive objects (including over 600 bronzes) found in 1838 on Mount Falterona at a site known as the Lake of Idols.",
    "provenance": "[Found at Monte Falterona, 1838]; Francesco Capranesi Collection, Rome, by 1844, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Comte James Alexandre de Pourtales-Gorgier, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Catalogue des objets d'art qui composent les Collections de feu M. le Compte de Pourtales-Gorgier, Paris, 6 Feb 1865, p. 111, lot 549; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 550-520 BCE (Archaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.102",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "statuettes (statues)",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.102_Fnt_TR_T01IV.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.102_Fnt_TR_T01IV.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.102_Fnt_TR_T01IV.jpg",
    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12,
            "height": 3.7,
            "depth": 3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 11/16 x W: 1 7/16 x D: 1 3/16 in. (12 x 3.7 x 3 cm); Mount H: 7/8 x W: 1 15/16 x D: 1 7/8 in. (2.2 x 4.9 x 4.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Etruscan",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6291"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.102_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d30cd66ecaeb383c"
}