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{
    "localId": "40621",
    "label": "Kneeling King",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2102"
}

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    "id": "40621",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2102",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kneeling King",
    "description": "The king kneels with his arms reaching to hold something that is now missing. He wears a striped royal head-cloth and uraeus. He wears a pleated kilt and a collar. Beneath his knees and feet are prongs for insertion into a base. There are slight traces of gilding.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [found at Pyramids]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "early 11th-mid 4th century BCE (Third Intermediate Period-Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2102",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_54.2102_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_54.2102_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.3,
            "height": 5.3,
            "depth": 6.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 13/16 x W: 2 1/16 x D: 2 5/8 in. (12.3 x 5.3 x 6.7 cm); H with tang: 6 1/16 x 2 1/16 x 2 5/8 in. (15.4 x 5.3 x 6.7 cm); H with base: 7 15/16 x W: 1 9/16 x D: 3 1/16 in. (20.1 x 4 x 7.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "bronze; traces of gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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