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    "localId": "812",
    "label": "Kneeling Shu with Raised Arms and Sun Disk",
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    "id": "812",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kneeling Shu with Raised Arms and Sun Disk",
    "description": "The god Shu is kneeling on a rectangular base with his arms raised to lift the sky from the earth.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 7th-mid 4th century BCE (Late Period, 26th-30th dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1548",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.5,
            "height": 2,
            "depth": 1.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 3/8 x W: 13/16 x D: 9/16 in. (3.47 x 2.01 x 1.43 cm)"
}

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    "dynasty": "26th Dynasty-30th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with green glaze",
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