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    "localId": "84067",
    "label": "Dragon of Tannin Island and Horned Rabit",
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    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.659.155B"
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    "id": "84067",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.659.155B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dragon of Tannin Island and Horned Rabit",
    "description": "This illustration from Walters manuscript W.659 depicts the dragon of Tannin Island that Alexander the Great (Iskandar) killed and the horned rabbit that its inhabitants gave him as a gift.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1121 AH/AD 1717 (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.659.155B",
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    "language": "en",
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        "folios (leaves)"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 33,
            "height": 20
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13 x W: 7 7/8 in. (33 x 20 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on European laid paper",
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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