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    "localId": "36941",
    "label": "Jar in the Form of Bes",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1600"
}

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    "id": "36941",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1600",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Jar in the Form of Bes",
    "description": "The god Bes was responsible for protecting mothers and children. This jar may have held liquids used as remedies.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century BCE-1st century CE (Ptolemaic-Roman)",
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    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "Egyptian faience",
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    ],
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