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    "localId": "80929",
    "label": "Woman's Belt",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.2325"
}

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    "id": "80929",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.2325",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Woman's Belt",
    "description": "The girdle is made of a flexible, interlace mesh and has eleven movable retainers with large rhombic attachments, each with two tear-shaped pendants, and twelveretainers with smaller rhombic attachments, each with one pendant. All attachments were cast. Small rings and rosettes frame the large rhombic elements, and three-ring motif with burling rosettes accompany the smaller ones at their top and bottom. The clasps are also decorated with a large rhombic elements. A wire shaped in a figure-eight with a rosette is used as a closing element.On the front of the clasps is an Arabic stamp with the name of the ruler and a date: al-Mahdi 1170. The similarity to stamps of al-Mahdi al-\"Abbas makes it likely that thependants were produced under his reign from AH 1161 to 1189 (AD 1748-1775).An engraved inscription on the back of the clasp names the silversmith: Musa \"Iraqi. For another object by Musa \"Iraqi, see Walters 57.2321.",
    "provenance": "Mr. Derek Content and Mr. Benjamin Zucker [Zucker Family Trust] London and New York, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by gift.",
    "date": "1170 AH/AD 1756-1757",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.2325",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "girdles (belts)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 86.3,
            "height": 2.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 34 x W: 1 in. (86.3 x 2.6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Stamp] In Arabic: al-Mahdi 1170; [Engraved] In Hebrew: Musa Iraqi",
    "reign": "Al-Mahdi al-Abbas (1170 AH/AD 1756-1757)",
    "med": "silver with gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "18959"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JWL",
        "SAY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3181",
        "3562"
    ]
}

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