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# Ornament

Cast copper alloy finial in the shape of a parrot in the round, with notched decoration along the edges of the flat tail. The bird sits on a cylindrical section with a hole in its centre into which a pin or attachment tang was originally inserted.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 700–1399 CE

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