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{
    "localId": "39465",
    "label": "Clothing Ornaments Depicting Black Sea Eagles",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.387"
}

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    "id": "39465",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.387",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Clothing Ornaments Depicting Black Sea Eagles",
    "description": "There are six pairs of gold plaques done in repoussé relief, showing confronting birds of prey, one devouring a fish. The plaques are pierced at the birds' bills, tails, wings and feet suggesting they were sewn on clothing as ornaments. Robert Zahn (Galerie Bachstitz, pp. 31, 35, plate 30) considered the birds Black Sea eagles, often represented on the coinage of Pontic cities.",
    "provenance": "[From a tomb near Olbia, Parutino, Ukraine (?), 1913]; F. L. van Gans, Frankfurt (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; P. Mavrogordato, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague [catalogue 1921, part II, lot 92 O]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century BC (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.387",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "ornaments",
        "garments"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.387_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.387_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek (?)",
    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256",
        "15409"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_57.387_Fnt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "mediaId": "945d1e10428432b3"
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