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{
    "localId": "8226",
    "label": "Hippopotamus",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.528"
}

{
    "id": "8226",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.528",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Hippopotamus",
    "description": "This small figure displays a standing hippopotamus. Figures such as this may have been votives.",
    "provenance": "MacGregor Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [lot 708]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 4000-3500 BCE (Predynastic; Naqada I)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.528",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.528_Top_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.528_Top_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_71.528_Top_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.4,
            "height": 1.5,
            "depth": 4.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15/16 x W: 9/16 x D: 1 5/8 in. (2.35 x 1.47 x 4.13 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "style": "Naqada I",
    "dynasty": "Predynastic",
    "med": "hippopotamus ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "PRE"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "215"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_71.528_Rt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "53c717efb11ac440"
}