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    "localId": "6327",
    "label": "Saint Thomas",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2086.3"
}

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    "id": "6327",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2086.3",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Saint Thomas",
    "description": "This tile was one in a series with portraits of the twelve apostles and a Deesis (Christ flanked by the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist) in the middle. Images of the Baptist (48.2086.26), Paul (inv. 48.2086.20), Peter (48.2086.27), Andrew (48.2086.24), Bartholomew (48.2086.29), Matthew (48.2086.25), Luke (48.2086.21), and John the Evangelist (48.2086.28) also survive from it, as well as fragments of three further, unidentifiable busts (48.2086.8; 48.2086.22-23).",
    "provenance": "Nikos Avgheris, Istanbul, ca. 1950, by purchase; Robert E. Hecht, Ruxton, Maryland, 1956, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1956, by purchase.",
    "date": "10th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2086.3",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "ceramic tiles",
        "icons"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.2086.3_Fnt_TR_T00II.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.2086.3_Fnt_TR_T00II.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.2086.3_Fnt_TR_T00II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16.7,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 9/16 x 6 1/2 in. (16.7 x 16.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "dynasty": "Macedonian Dynasty",
    "med": "ceramic with glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BYZ"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/ARG_48.2086.3_Fnt_UK.jpg",
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}