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Button

Forty-one of an original set of ninety-six domed buttons, cut and hammered from thin sheet debased gold, with small, copper alloy attachment loops soldered to the centre back (one button now in two pieces; one button fragment; several crushed or missing loops). Some of the loops have small lumps of resin (?) attached.

Kind
artefact
Date
150–199 CE
Place
Guldara stupa (34.4167, 69.1667)