Pins
This category includes straight objects used for fastening cloth.
Pins are straight pieces of metal with a pointed end. Woolley lists 8 types of pins based on their style. Woolley's type 1 are straight pins, pierced or unpierced with a ball head of material other than metal. Woolley's type 2 has a knobby head of metal. Type 3 is a pin with a domed head of metal. Type 4 has a rolled head. Type 5 has a flattened and rolled head to hold feathers, and is listed as a hairpin in our typology. Type 6 has anthro/zoomorphic figures on the head. Type 7 has a bent head sometimes with stone beads at the end. Type 8 has a rounded head. Pierced pins may have been used to hang toggles or cylinder seals. Pins are mixed between style and period.
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9599 | (none) | (none) | B16954 | Copper Pin Rounded in section [drawing] Type IX | |
 | 9066 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section [drawing] |
| 9099 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section [drawing] |
| 9057 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section [Type] IX [drawing] |
| 10383 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Rounded in section at bottom, square above Elongated knob head Hole perforated through top Type I |
| 9593 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Slender type Rounded in section [drawing] Type IX |
| 9329 | (none) | 1928,1010.370 | (none) | Copper pin Stem thickened to head [Type] I | |
| 8502 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Thickened to head and with short tang [Type] I |
| 9180 | (none) | 1928,1009.241 | (none) | Copper pin Thickened to head, round in section, short tang [Type] I |
| 9304 | (none) | 1928,1009.350 | (none) | Copper pin Thickened to top of stem and with plain ball head | |
| 9021 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Tip missing Rounded in section [Type] I [drawing] |
| 10839 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin With coiled head Type VII |
| 10776 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with copper ball head broken in 2 pieces Type V |
| 10763A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin with copper ball head corroded on to a flattened hemispherical copper bowl Pin perforated through upper portion of stem to admit a copper ring. Copper bowl in poor condition and distorted Type V [drawing] |
| 9184 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin With curled over head. [Type] VII |
| 9151 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin With gold and lapis ball head the stem is pierced and through the back passes a copper ring: from this hangs apparently a very slender copper chain (almost entirely destroyed): the chain runs along the pin to the point where a silver seal (U.9150) was fixed by corrosion to the stem, and it presumably supported the seal. [Type V] |
| 10092 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head (broken) Type V |
| 10345 | (none) | 1928,1010.55 | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head Broken in three pieces Type V | |
| 9736 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head Type V [drawing] |
| 10091 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head Type V |
| 10402 | (none) | 1928,1010.357 | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head capped with silver (broken) Type V | |
| 9993 | (none) | 1928,1010.53 | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head set in silver Shaft broken Type V | |
| 10341 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head, and gold cap on top of head Type V |
| 10099 | (none) | (none) | B17486 | Copper Pin With plain ball head [drawing] Type IV | |
| 10845 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin with plain rounded head Type IX |
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