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    "localId": "80003",
    "label": "Scarab from Egyptian-Style Necklace",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1530.6"
}

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    "id": "80003",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1530.6",
    "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": "ca. 1794-1539 BC (Late Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate; MB IIB)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1530.6",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "necklaces"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_57.1530.6_Bot_DD_RS2009.jpg",
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    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.5,
            "height": 1.1,
            "depth": 0.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9/16 x W: 7/16 x D: 1/4 in. (1.5 x 1.1 x 0.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] C-shaped spiral scrolls (see: Stoof",
        "Stempelsiegel mit Spiralmustern",
        "pp. 36-37) combined with nb-basket",
        "dd-pillar (\"\"stability)",
        "and ankh-sign (\"\"life\"\")."
    ],
    "med": "steatite, light brown; glaze, blue",
    "creator_ids": [],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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