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{
    "localId": "81123",
    "label": "Text Page with Illuminated Marginal Medallion",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.568.13B"
}

{
    "id": "81123",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.568.13B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Text Page with Illuminated Marginal Medallion",
    "description": "This text page from Walters manuscript W.568 has an illuminated medallion in gold, blue, and red located in the right margin. This decorative form indicates the place where the believer performs a ritual prostration, or bowing down.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "12th century AH/AD 18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.568.13B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.568.13b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.568.13b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.568.13b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 30,
            "height": 21.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 13/16 x W: 8 7/16 in. (30 x 21.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on Italian paper with a watermark of three crescents",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15527"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.568.13b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f565cbd787374e6f"
}