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    "localId": "898",
    "label": "Intaglio with Janiform Heads of a Boar and a Man Set in a Mount",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1070"
}

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    "id": "898",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1070",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with Janiform Heads of a Boar and a Man Set in a Mount",
    "description": "The image on this intaglio shows janiform heads of a boar, in profile to the right, and a man, in profile to the left. A Greek inscription below includes the letters ΘΙΕ.",
    "provenance": "George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, by 1817, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Marlborough no. 666]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 104, lot 666; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 114, lot 666; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "1st century BCE-1st century CE (Late Hellenistic-early Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1070",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "rings",
        "intaglio"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS4_42.1070_3QtrLft_DD_AT24_54257.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS4_42.1070_3QtrLft_DD_AT24_54257.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS4_42.1070_3QtrLft_DD_AT24_54257.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Greco-Roman",
    "med": "jasper; mount: gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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