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. On both sides a punched dot in circle marks the eye and tail, with a larger one on the body. A few cross-hatched lines decorate the short shaft.

Kind

artefact

Date

800–999 CE

Place

Kāpiśī (34.9800, 69.3000)