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    "localId": "7427",
    "label": "Stamp Seal with a Winged Creature",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.790"
}

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    "id": "7427",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.790",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Stamp Seal with a Winged Creature",
    "description": "The intaglio carving depicts a winged creature, perhaps a griffin, with one paw raised and its head turned backward. The seal is conical and tapers at the back, where it is pierced.",
    "provenance": "Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Joseph Brummer, New York, 1941; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.",
    "date": "538-331 BCE (Achaemenid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.790",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "seals (artifacts)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.790_Fnt_BW_H41.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.790_Fnt_BW_H41.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.6,
            "height": 1.7,
            "depth": 1.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 1 × 11/16 × 3/4 in. (2.6 × 1.7 × 1.9 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Iranian",
    "med": "chalcedony",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6747"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ANE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_42.790_Fnt_BW_H41.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8d6385258fccb14a"
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