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{
    "localId": "12613",
    "label": "Griffin Fibula",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2232"
}

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    "id": "12613",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2232",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Griffin Fibula",
    "description": "The human hand on the foreleg of the griffin would have held the pin of this brooch.",
    "provenance": "Andronicos Kidaoglou, Constantinople, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1925, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P2124]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "8th-7th century BCE (Urartian)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2232",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "brooches",
        "fibulae"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.2232_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.2232_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.5,
            "height": 3.1,
            "depth": 1.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 3/8 x 1 3/16 x 9/16 in. (3.5 x 3.1 x 1.5 cm)"
}

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    "med": "bronze",
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    ],
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        "JWL"
    ],
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        "2513",
        "2704"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_54.2232_Lft_BW.jpg",
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