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    "localId": "7681",
    "label": "Intaglio with Athena Promachos Set in a Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1135"
}

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    "id": "7681",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1135",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with Athena Promachos Set in a Ring",
    "description": "Athena Promachos is shown striding left on this intaglio. She wears a Corinthian helmet and holds a spear in her left hand and a round shield in her right. On the right is a crescent.",
    "provenance": "George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, by 1817, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Marlborough no. 90]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 13, lot 90; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 15, lot 90; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "1st-2nd century CE (Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1135",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "rings",
        "intaglios"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.1135_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 0.9,
            "height": 0.7,
            "depth": 0.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Intaglio H: 3/8 × W: 1/4 × D: 3/16 in. (0.9 × 0.7 × 0.5 cm). Ring max diam: 7/8 × Hoop: 13/16 × Bezel H: 7/16 in. (2.3 × 2 × 1.1 cm)."
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "nicolo; mount: gold",
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        "6985"
    ],
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        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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