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    "localId": "95143",
    "label": "Desiccated Fruits and Nuts",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/62.1.2"
}

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    "id": "95143",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/62.1.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Desiccated Fruits and Nuts",
    "description": "In 1923, Henry Walters purchased an ancient wooden box that served as a model coffin. Inside the box was a group of fruit that dried out long ago and were preserved in Egypt's arid climate: dom-palm nuts, figs, and pomegranates, with their distinctive blossom-end.",
    "provenance": "Rev. William MacGregor Collection Sale, Sotheby's, London, 1922; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "945-712 BCE (Third Intermediate Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/62.1.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "dry fruit"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_62.1_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.5,
            "height": 28,
            "depth": 15.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/8 x W: 11 x D: 6 1/8 in. (10.5 x 28 x 15.5 cm)"
}

{
    "dynasty": "22nd-23rd Dynasty",
    "med": "dried fruit",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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