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{
    "localId": "9620",
    "label": "Magic Wand Depicting a Procession of Deities",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.510"
}

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    "id": "9620",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.510",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Magic Wand Depicting a Procession of Deities",
    "description": "The curve of this wand follows that of the hippopotamus tusk from which it was made but its flat form is reminiscent of the curved throwing sticks used to catch fowl. Powerful protective deities, such as Taweret and Bes, are depicted together with protective uraeus serpents and other mythical creatures. Many of the figures brandish knives to dispel evil spirits.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1880-1700 BCE (Middle Kingdom, late 12th-13th dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.510",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "wands"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.510_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.510_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.510_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16,
            "height": 36.5,
            "depth": 0.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 5/16 x 14 3/8 x 1/4 in. (16 x 36.5 x 0.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "late 12th-13th Dynasty",
    "med": "hippopotamus ivory; incised",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2172",
        "850",
        "215"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_71.510_Back_DD_T08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ba43a6627ddd8c38"
}