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    "localId": "9328",
    "label": "Floor or Cushion Cover Fragment with Running Hares",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/83.510"
}

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    "id": "9328",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/83.510",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Floor or Cushion Cover Fragment with Running Hares",
    "description": "Rows of running hares (alternately upside down) and trees (lying on their sides) suggest that this textile was to be viewed from different directions, perhaps as a covering for a floor or cushion.The twill weave, a relatively new technique at the time, has produced a heavy, durable fabric, well suited to withstand the substantial wear such a covering would experience.",
    "provenance": "Maurice Nahman, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-5th century (Early Byzantine)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/83.510",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.7,
            "height": 44.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "12 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (31.7 x 44.4 cm)"
}

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}

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