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{
    "localId": "7657",
    "label": "Scarab with Herakles Holding the Apples of the Hesperides",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.486"
}

{
    "id": "7657",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.486",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Scarab with Herakles Holding the Apples of the Hesperides",
    "description": "This scarab depicts the hero Herakles, bearded and wreathed, in profile to the left with a club in his left hand. In his right hand he holds three apples of the Hesperides.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "5th century BCE (Late Archaic-Classical)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.486",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "beads (pierced objects)",
        "intaglios",
        "scarabs"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.486_Top_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.5,
            "height": 1,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9/16 x W: 3/8 x D: 3/8 in. (1.5 x 1 x 1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Etruscan",
    "med": "carnelian",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6291"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2089"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_42.486_Top_DD_T08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "fc52623333f038ef"
}