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{
    "localId": "76495",
    "label": "Pendant with Human Face",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/52.312"
}

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    "id": "76495",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/52.312",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pendant with Human Face",
    "description": "The oval plaque features a male head wearing an elaborate headdress that resembles the Macedonian \"kausia\" (a kind of flat hat). Similar pendants were made in the Roman Empire, but it is impossible to determine whether this pendant reached South Arabia as an import or was made locally after a foreign model.",
    "provenance": "Ahmed [local art dealer], Ta'izz, Yemen; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, 1961/2(?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.",
    "date": "1st-5th century CE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/52.312",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "amulets"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_52.312_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_52.312_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_52.312_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.8,
            "height": 4,
            "depth": 2.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 11/16 x W: 1 9/16 x D: 1 in. (6.8 x 4 x 2.5 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "iron",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15549"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "SAY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2002"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/KPS_52.312_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "865950ead6119b27"
}