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# Dress-pin

Copper alloy hair- or dress-pin with a finial in the shape of a stylised peacock. On both sides, the circular eye socket is repeated on the tail; all may have once held inset stones. The top of the surviving square shaft is decorated with incised parallel bands, with the remains of a notched section below.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1000–1099 CE
- **Place:** Kāpiśī (34.9800, 69.3000)

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