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    "localId": "8826",
    "label": "Amphora with Bacchic Scenes",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.708"
}

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    "id": "8826",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.708",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Amphora with Bacchic Scenes",
    "description": "This amphora has lost one of its handles. The scenes on the amphora include Bacchus and his consort, Ariadne, with their followers among temples, hills, and trees. A later inscription appears on the neck, where a missing handle was originally attached. The inscription reads, A V.S.D./MER (votum solvit deo mercurio), \"dedication to Mercury.\"",
    "provenance": "Found at Entrains, near Dijon, 1921; Mme. Mancel, Paris?, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1926, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P3099]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2nd-3rd century CE (Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.708",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "amphorae (storage vessels)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.708_Lft_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 15.9,
            "height": 10.9,
            "depth": 9.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 1/4 x W: 4 5/16 x Diam: 3 11/16 in. (15.9 x 10.9 x 9.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "inscriptions": "[Transcription] On neck: A V.S.D./MER; [Translation] On neck: dedication to Mercury",
    "med": "silver, traces of gilt",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "3164"
    ]
}

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