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    "localId": "5577",
    "label": "Amphora with Cover",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.1"
}

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    "id": "5577",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.1",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Amphora with Cover",
    "description": "A rare and fine example of so-called \"Egyptian blue\" ceramic ware, this lovely vase has a form similar to contemporary vessels of alabaster.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Luxor]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1479-1425 BCE (New Kingdom, early 18th Dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.1",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Glasswares",
        "vases",
        "covers"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.6,
            "height": 10.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 15/16 x 4 in. (12.6 x 10.2 cm) (h. x diam.);top of vase: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm) (diam.);lid: 5/16 x 3 3/4 in. (0.8 x 9.5 cm) (h. x diam.)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian blue",
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    ],
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        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2682"
    ]
}

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