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{
    "localId": "28523",
    "label": "Eros",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.724"
}

{
    "id": "28523",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.724",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Eros",
    "description": "The figure's chubby, child-like body and the arrangement of the hair suggest that the subject is a wingless Eros (the child-god of love). The pose indicates that he originally rode astride a plunging dolphin, a favorite subject in the 1st century. This object was probably an ornament for a lamp or table.",
    "provenance": "Durighello Collection, Paris, by 1921 [mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Sidon]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 20-60 (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.724",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "figurines",
        "ornaments"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.724_Fnt_TR_T87IIA.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.724_Fnt_TR_T87IIA.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.724_Fnt_TR_T87IIA.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.2,
            "height": 9.5,
            "depth": 6.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 2 11/16 in. (17.2 x 9.5 x 6.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greco-roman",
    "med": "cast bronze, silver inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3012"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_54.724_Fnt_TR_T87IIA.jpg",
    "mediaId": "fb0529b9f665f29d"
}