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{
    "localId": "6492",
    "label": "Stole (Epitrachelion) with Scenes from the Akathist Hymn",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/83.432"
}

{
    "id": "6492",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/83.432",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Stole (Epitrachelion) with Scenes from the Akathist Hymn",
    "description": "Epitrachelia are liturgical stoles worn only by priests and bishops. This one was specially made for a metropolitan of Cyzicus in Asia Minor. Rather than with the more usual images of saints (cf. Walters 83.315), it is embroidered with illustrations of the 24 strophes of the Akathist, a hymn in praise of the Virgin Mary. The beginning of each strophe is inscribed under the respective scene.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1667 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/83.432",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textiles",
        "stoles",
        "liturgical vestements"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_83.432_DetN_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_83.432_DetN_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_83.432_DetN_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 14,
    "pageCount": 14,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 61 13/16 in. (157 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Orthodox Eastern",
    "style": "Post-Byzantine",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transcription]  + Τοῦ πανιεροτάτου κ(αὶ) λογιω/τάτου μ(ητ)ροπολίτου Κυζίκου / κυρίου Μ(ητ)ροφάνους τοῦ ἐκ Θη/βῶν τῆς Βοιωτίας κτῆ/μα ἱερὸν ἐστὶ τοῦτο / ἐν ἔτει",
        "αχξζ᾿;[Translation] This is a sacred possession of the most holy and most learned metropolitan of Cyzicus",
        "Metrophanes from Thebes in Boeotia",
        "in the year 1667."
    ],
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
    "reign": "Mohammed IV (1648-1687)",
    "med": "pink silk, silk and silver thread",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16163"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "BYZ"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_83.432_DetC_BW.jpg",
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}