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    "localId": "79999",
    "label": "Scarab from Egyptian-Style Necklace",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1530.2"
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    "id": "79999",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1530.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Scarab from Egyptian-Style Necklace",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1479-1425 BC (New Kingdom)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1530.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "width": 1.3,
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1/2 x W: 3/8 x D: 1/4 in. (1.3 x 1 x 0.6 cm)"
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{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] Throne name of King Thutmose III in a cartouche",
        "combined with a divine kingship epithet; the throne name also has a cryptographic reading for the name of Amun as a so-called Amun's trigram: Men-kheper-Re;\t/ Living Horus."
    ],
    "dynasty": "18th Dynasty",
    "med": "light red-brown steatite with green-blue glaze",
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    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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