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{
    "localId": "77780",
    "label": "The Martyrdom of Saint Timothy",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.521.203V"
}

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    "id": "77780",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.521.203V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Martyrdom of Saint Timothy",
    "description": "Two separate episodes are depicted within a single frame. On the left, Christ's disciple Timothy is being clubbed to death by one of the pagans whose festival he had disrupted. He wears an episcopal stole (omophorion) because he is bishop of Ephesos. At the right, two men carry a coffin, while a priest before them swings a lit censer. This represents either the burial of Timothy at Ephesos or the translation (transfer) of his remains to the Constantinopolitan Church of the Holy Apostles in 356.",
    "provenance": "Library of the Greek Patriarchate, Alexandria (no. 32/33) [known to have been there in 1895 and 1901, but reported lost by 1914]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase [probably from Leon Gruel, Paris]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1025-1050",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.521.203V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_W.521.203V_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_W.521.203V_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_W.521.203V_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 30,
            "height": 23.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 13/16 x W: 9 1/4 in. (30 x 23.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "med": "nk and pigments on very high quality parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2397",
        "358"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_W.521.203V_ObvDet_DD_T06jpg.jpg",
    "mediaId": "bbcbdef33f3117ab"
}