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{
    "localId": "7006",
    "label": "Deity Holding a Foundation Peg",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.790"
}

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    "id": "7006",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.790",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Deity Holding a Foundation Peg",
    "description": "A deity, wearing a divine horned headdress, kneels with a foundation peg inscribed with King Gudea's name. Though the inscription is mostly defaced, it was probably dedicated to Ningirsu, god of the city of Lagash.",
    "provenance": "Joseph Brummer, New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 2100 BCE (Lagash II; Ur III [Neo-Sumerian])",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.790",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "figurines",
        "votive images"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_54.790_Prof_UK.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_54.790_Prof_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_54.790_Prof_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.7,
            "height": 4.3,
            "depth": 7.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 15/16 x 1 11/16 x 2 13/16 in. (17.7 x 4.3 x 7.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Neo-Sumerian",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] includes name of King Gudea",
    "reign": "Gudea (ca. 2144-2124 BC)",
    "med": "cast bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4252"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.790_3QtrRt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b3c19916c59ecbd5"
}