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# Dress-pin

Flat, copper alloy hair- or dress-pin finial representing a stylised peacock: U-shaped with an almost identical head and tail resembling two addorsed birds' heads. Undecorated; no shaft survives.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 700–999 CE
- **Place:** Kāpiśī (34.9800, 69.3000)

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3711-a](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3711-a) · Pramāṇa
