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# Bracket

Nāgadanta or stupa peg with a male protome. The figure emerges from the waist upwards out of acanthus leaves at the end of a short horizontal tenon. The head is oval with small, rounded, protruding eyes and the hairline seems formed of an undulating stalk in front of indistinct curls.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 100–299 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1949-0718-48](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1949-0718-48) · Pramāṇa
