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{
    "localId": "76498",
    "label": "Intaglio with Two Birds",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1513"
}

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    "id": "76498",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1513",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with Two Birds",
    "description": "This small intaglio depicts two birds, one of which sits on a basket-like nest. Based on similar examples, it appears to have been created in a Greco-Roman workshop and then imported into South Arabia by a traveler, trader, or other agent. It is likely that the intaglio had an amuletic as well as ornamental function.",
    "provenance": "Ahmed [local art dealer], Ta'izz, Yemen; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, 1961, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.",
    "date": "1st century CE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1513",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "intaglios"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_42.1513_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_42.1513_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.2,
            "height": 0.8,
            "depth": 0.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1/2 x W: 5/16 x D: 1/16 in. (1.2 x 0.8 x 0.2 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "chalcedony",
    "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_42.1513_Fnt_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "1f2e77fbf0a172d0"
}