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{
    "localId": "15766",
    "label": "Head Ornament",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.546"
}

{
    "id": "15766",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.546",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Head Ornament",
    "description": "This luxurious piece of jewelry may have been a hair ornament, or one of two pendants that hung from a noblewoman's crown or headdress.  The small bust of a woman with a turreted crown is identified by the Greek inscription \"KOCMIA\" as a personification of Adornment. The semiprecious stones were added to the piece in the 1910s as replacements for the lost original ones.",
    "provenance": "Unknown dealer, Smyrna;  Friedrich Ludwig von Gans, Frankfurt a. Main, ca. 1912-1920, by purchase;  Kurt W. Bachstitz, Hague, 1920, by purchase;  Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "6th-7th century (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.546",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "ornaments"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.546_Fnt_TR_C79.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.546_Fnt_TR_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.546_Fnt_TR_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.1,
            "height": 3.5,
            "depth": 0.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 3/4 x 1 3/8 x 5/16 in. (17.1 x 3.5 x 0.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "med": "gold, semiprecious stones",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "BYZ",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_57.546_NF_3851-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "3e436b7605d9d950"
}