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{
    "localId": "11",
    "label": "Unfinished Ring with Flat Bead",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.188"
}

{
    "id": "11",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.188",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Unfinished Ring with Flat Bead",
    "description": "One side of the bead bears a detailed carving of an owl, a hieroglyph that has the same sound value as the English \"m.\" The other side shows a victorious pharaoh raising his weapon to dispatch a cowering enemy. The plaque was probably created in the 18th or 19th Dynasty.",
    "provenance": "Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1909, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 1; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1479-1185 BCE (New Kingdom, Dynasty 18-19)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.188",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "finger rings",
        "beads",
        "plaques (flat objects)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.188_SideA_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.188_SideA_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_42.188_SideA_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1,
            "height": 1.3,
            "depth": 0
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3/8 x W: 1/2 (0.99 x 1.33 x 0.04 cm); Ring inner Diam: 9/16 in. (1.35 cm); Outer Diam: 3/4 in. (1.84 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th-19th Dynasty",
    "med": "carved yellow jasper and gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_42.188_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f04ed83cae424100"
}