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    "localId": "39495",
    "label": "Tablet with Inscription Honoring Ancharia Luperca",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.176"
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    "id": "39495",
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    "contentType": "object",
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    "title": "Tablet with Inscription Honoring Ancharia Luperca",
    "description": "The inscription on this tablet gives honors to Ancharia Luperca, the wife of Laberius Gallus, by the society of the smiths of Volsenii. A male bust (Walters 54.1148) was riveted to the top of the tablet when it entered the Walters' collection.",
    "provenance": "Excavated 1882, Bolsena (Volsinii), Italy; collection of Giovanni Scotti [CIL XI 2702]. Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [cat. no. 14, pt. 2]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "23 January 224 CE (Roman Imperial)",
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 69.5,
            "height": 48.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 27 3/8 x W: 19 1/8 in. (69.5 x 48.5 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "CIL XI 2702",
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