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    "localId": "7668",
    "label": "Ring with an Intaglio of Eros",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1021"
}

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    "id": "7668",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1021",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring with an Intaglio of Eros",
    "description": "The hoop is slightly rounded on the outside and flat on the inside; the shoulders are square. The stepped oval bezel has a rinceau pattern between raised gold borders. The garnet is strongly convex and is cut in intaglio with Eros wearing a sash and holding a torch in his lowered hand.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-3rd century BC",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1021",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "W of Bezel: 3/4 in. (1.91 cm); Diam of Hoop: 3/4 in. (1.91 cm)"
}

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    "med": "gold, garnet",
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    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "2237"
    ]
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