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# Dress-pin

Copper alloy hair- or dress-pin with traces of gilding. The finial is in the shape of a flat, stylised, cockerel-like bird with a comb rising from the parrot-like beak to a point on the top of the head. The tail is missing.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 300–499 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3681-e](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3681-e) · Pramāṇa
