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    "localId": "6905",
    "label": "Death and Burial of the Prophet Micah",
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    "title": "Death and Burial of the Prophet Micah",
    "description": "At the left, Micah is about to be pushed over a cliff at the order of King Jotham of Judah (ruled probably 740-736 BCE). At the right, two men have laid the prophet's dead body into a stone coffin. The elder one is raising his veiled hands to his chin as a sign of mourning.",
    "provenance": "Greek Patriarchal Library of Alexandria, cod. 33 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Léon Gruel (?), Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1025-1050",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
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            "width": 29.7,
            "height": 23.6
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    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "11 11/16 x 9 5/16 in. (29.7 x 23.6 cm)"
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