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    "localId": "9521",
    "label": "Actor",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1067"
}

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    "id": "9521",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1067",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Actor",
    "description": "The half-mask over the eyes and nose identifies the figure as an actor. He wears a man's conical cap but female garments, following the Greek custom of men playing the roles of women.",
    "provenance": "Kann Sale, 1897, no. 98; Arthur Sambon, Paris, 1914 [mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 63]; Joseph Brummer, 1927 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "second half 2nd century BCE (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1067",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "figurines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.1067_Fnt_SL.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.1067_Fnt_SL.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.7,
            "height": 5,
            "depth": 2.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 13/16 x 1 15/16 x 15/16 in. (9.7 x 5 x 2.4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2237"
    ]
}

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