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    "localId": "80059",
    "label": "Prince Daniyal Accompanies the Young Hindu Girl to the Funeral Pyre",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.649.17B"
}

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    "id": "80059",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.649.17B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Prince Daniyal Accompanies the Young Hindu Girl to the Funeral Pyre",
    "description": "In this folio from Walters manuscript W.649, Emperor Akbar eventually permits the young Hindu girl to practice sati (self-immolation). Akbar's son, Prince Daniyal, accompanies the woman to the funeral pyre.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1068 AH/AD 1657 (Safavid; Mughal)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.649.17B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 14.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/4 x W: 5 11/16 in. (23.5 x 14.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
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        "16858"
    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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