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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)

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3688-1-41](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3688-1-41) · Pramāṇa
