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{
    "localId": "4840",
    "label": "Box with Lid",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.29"
}

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    "id": "4840",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.29",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Box with Lid",
    "description": "This unusual container, in the form of a miniature shrine or shrine-shaped sarcophagus, was made for an important official, the treasurer and steward Neter-isy, and his wife Nub-em-seshy. Since the lid is inscribed with an offering text and Neter-isy is called \"the justified,\" meaning deceased (on the right side of the box), the container was probably a funerary object included in the couple's tomb.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Aswan]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1956-1872 BCE (Middle Kingdom)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.29",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Stone",
        "boxes (containers)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_41.29_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_41.29_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.6,
            "height": 18,
            "depth": 10.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 9/16 x W: 7 1/16 x D: 4 1/8 in. (11.6 x 18 x 10.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "12th Dynasty",
    "med": "red granite",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_41.29_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "mediaId": "6fc5e474b3e53398"
}