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{
    "localId": "6539",
    "label": "Gold Jewelry Ornament",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1820"
}

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    "id": "6539",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1820",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Gold Jewelry Ornament",
    "description": "This ornament may have formed part of an earring or necklace.  The polyhedral shape was a favorite among the Ostrogoths.",
    "provenance": "[Found in Ravenna (?)]; Adolph Loewi, Venice [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer Sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 12, 1949, no. 246; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "late 5th-early 6th century (Early Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1820",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "ornaments",
        "jewelry"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.1820_Side_DD_T07.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.1820_Side_DD_T07.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.1820_Side_DD_T07.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.2,
            "height": 2,
            "depth": 1.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "7/8 x 13/16 x 9/16 in. (2.2 x 2 x 1.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Ostrogothic",
    "med": "gold, glass",
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    ],
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        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.1820_Fnt_DD_T07.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ecb347e5f4bb33da"
}