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{
    "localId": "1457",
    "label": "Ring with Horus and Hathor",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1620"
}

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    "id": "1457",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1620",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring with Horus and Hathor",
    "description": "A fragile openwork ring made of faience with designs in superimposed registers of plaques. The god Horus, represented as a hawk with disk on head, one wing up, one down, foot forward, alternates with heads of the cow-eared goddess Hathor. In all but one plaque she wears a low crown. In one she wears the characteristic heavy wig with spiral curls.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th-8th century BC",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1620",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "rings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1620_VwG_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1620_VwG_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1620_VwG_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.4,
            "height": 2.2,
            "depth": 1.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9/16 x W: 7/8 x Outer Diam: 9/16 in. (1.42 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm)"
}

{
    "dynasty": "21st-22nd Dynasty",
    "med": "faience with blue glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_48.1620_VwB_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "05bc2792ae58f81d"
}