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# Dress-pin

Copper alloy hair- or dress-pin with a finial in the shape of a flat, stylised cockerel with a comb and splayed tail, the eyes delineated as a punched circle and dot; decorated on the body with a series of incised parallel diagonal lines and crossed by two horizontal ones.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 99 BCE – 99 CE
- **Place:** Kāpiśī (34.9800, 69.3000)

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