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# Dress-pin

Copper alloy hair- or dress-pin finial in the shape of a flat, stylised bird with a comb, rounded beak, and upright tail. The wings are round at the front, pointed at the tip. Both wings and tail are decorated with a punched circle and dot. The same motif marks each eye.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 700–1199 CE
- **Place:** Kāpiśī (34.9800, 69.3000)

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