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    "localId": "36052",
    "label": "Saint John the Baptist",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2086.26.1-7"
}

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    "id": "36052",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2086.26.1-7",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Saint John the Baptist",
    "description": "This tile was one in a series with portraits of the twelve apostles and a Deesis (Christ flanked by the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist) in the middle. Images of Paul (inv. 48.2086.20), Peter (48.2086.27), Andrew (48.2086.24), Thomas (48.2086.3), Bartholomew (48.2086.29), Matthew (48.2086.25), Luke (48.2086.21), and John the Evangelist (48.2086.28) also survive from it, as well as fragments of three further, unidentifiable busts (48.2086.8; 48.2086.22-23). The Baptist is shown with hands raised in prayer toward Christ, whose image is now lost.",
    "provenance": "Nikos Avgheris, Istanbul, ca. 1950, by purchase; Robert E. Hecht, Ruxton, Maryland, 1956, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1956, by purchase.",
    "date": "10th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2086.26.1-7",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "ceramic tiles",
        "icons"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.2086.26_Fnt_BW_T00.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.2086.26_Fnt_BW_T00.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.2086.26_Fnt_BW_T00.jpg",
    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 41.9,
            "height": 41.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 16 1/2 x W: 16 1/2 in. (41.91 x 41.91 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "dynasty": "Macedonian Dynasty",
    "med": "ceramic with glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BYZ"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_48.2086.26_Fnt_TR_T00II.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ab96a6897ef720d2"
}