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    "localId": "81000",
    "label": "Folio with Kufic Script",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.552.36B"
}

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    "id": "81000",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.552.36B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Folio with Kufic Script",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.552 is executed in Kufic script. Already in the 9th century, the rectilinear Kufic script seen on this page began to be replaced by a more cursive \"font\" called the New Abbasid style. The Abbasids were an early Islamic dynasty that ruled from AD 750-1258.  The first center of political, economic and cultural life for the Abbasids was Baghdad, the circular City of Peace (madinat al-salam), which became the empire's capital in 762.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd century AH/AD 9th century (Abbasid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.552.36B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.552.36b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.552.36b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 13.5,
            "height": 21
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 5/16 x W: 8 1/4 in. (13.5 x 21 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6768"
    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "b6826ebdbf03f8a7"
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