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    "localId": "9302",
    "label": "Silver Ring with Flattened Hoop",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.704"
}

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    "id": "9302",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.704",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Silver Ring with Flattened Hoop",
    "description": "The hoop is flattened to produce a flat, diamond-shaped bezel engraved with a sphinx and swan with spread wings in a hatched border ending in palmettes. A break and mend are visible running through the middle of the bezel.",
    "provenance": "Joseph Brummer, New York [Yugoslavian treasure]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 6th century BC",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.704",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "rings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.704_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.704_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.704_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6291"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_57.704_DD_AT23_43609 1-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "92bbf3f9a09547c8"
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