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    "localId": "6172",
    "label": "Sword from an Equestrian Statue",
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}

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    "id": "6172",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sword from an Equestrian Statue",
    "description": "This sheathed sword was part of a Roman imperial monument that included a gilded bronze equestrian statue. The gilded bronze horse head nearby may have come from the same monument.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century (Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.761",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "Metal",
        "swords",
        "sheaths"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.4,
            "height": 70.2,
            "depth": 3.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 11/16 x 27 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (9.4 x 70.2 x 3.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "dynasty": "Julio-Claudian",
    "med": "gilt bronze",
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    ]
}

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