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# Dress-pin

Flat, copper alloy hair- or dress-pin, with a splayed and notched trilobate top; the shaft decorated on one face only with a bead and reel motif banded by incised parallel lines. The lower half of the shaft is missing.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 300–499 CE
- **Place:** Kāpiśī (34.9800, 69.3000)

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3713-j](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3713-j) · Pramāṇa
