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{
    "localId": "76497",
    "label": "Miniature Bull's Head",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3031"
}

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    "id": "76497",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3031",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Miniature Bull's Head",
    "description": "This solid-cast bronze head, broken off at the neck, might have been part of a small figurine. Such objects were often deposited in temples or sanctuaries by worshipers as offerings to the gods or buried with the deceased.",
    "provenance": "Ahmed [local art dealer], Ta'izz, Yemen; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, 1962, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.",
    "date": "1st -2nd century CE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3031",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "amulets"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_54.3031_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_54.3031_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_54.3031_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.4,
            "height": 2.7,
            "depth": 2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15/16 x W: 1 1/16 x D: 13/16 in. (2.4 x 2.7 x 2 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "bronze",
    "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_54.3031_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d6f7bc64ac76c2a1"
}