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{
    "localId": "9743",
    "label": "Furniture Knob with Name of King",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.404"
}

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    "id": "9743",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.404",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Furniture Knob with Name of King",
    "description": "This knob belonged to a chest and was used to fasten it. The inscription shows the two divine names of Aten, the sun god of Amarna, in cartouches, and the names of King Akhenaten. The line below the cartouches contains the wish for eternal life.",
    "provenance": "Rev. William MacGregor, Tamworth, Staffordshire, by 1922; Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 26-29 and July 4-6, 1922, no. 273 [as from Tel-el-Amarna]; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1340 BC (New Kingdom)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.404",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "furniture",
        "knobs"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.6,
            "height": 5.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 7/16 x 2 1/16 in. (3.6 x 5.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription]",
    "dynasty": "18th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
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        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "10"
    ]
}

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