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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11118 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone Pin. Broken in 2 pieces. Circular in section. Decorated with incisions oblique to the vertical axis of the pin. Traces of black paint remain on the incised portion of the pin. [drawing] |
| 11125 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Square in section. With carnelian ball head with a gold cap below. Tip missing. [Type] V |
| 11126 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Hair Pin. Rounded in section. Type IX. [drawing] |
| 11138 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper (Hair)? pin. Square in section. Copper ball head. Tip missing. Type 2(new) |
| 11144 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Hair Pin. Rounded in section. Tip Broken. Type IX. [drawing] |
| 11145 | (none) | (none) | B17282 | Copper Pin. Elongated knob head. Square in section above, rounded below. Type I. | |
| 11151 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Pin. With plain silver head. Curved type. Shaft broken. Type VI. |
| 11169 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. WIth plain point head curved type. Type VI. |
| 11171 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Pin. With fluted lapis head, bent type. Type VI. |
| 11209 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. With elongated knob head. Square in section above. Tip missing. Type I. [drawing] |
| 11210 | (none) | (none) | B17487 | Copper Pin. With lapis lazuli ball head. Stem square in section at top and rounded below. Tip missing. Upper portion of stem is perforated for suspension. Type V. [drawing] | |
| 11224 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Plain tang head. Type I. |
| 11226 | (none) | (none) | B17492 | Copper pin. Plain tang head. Type I. | |
| 11230E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head Ornament. (A) Gold ribbon. (B) Wreath of carnelian & lapis lazuli beads with gold mulberry leaf pendants. (C) [C.1-.2] Pair large lunate gold earrings. (D) Silver head ornament with inlaid rosette finials-gold, silver & shell. (E) [E and K] 2 silver pins with bent heads capped by a lapis ball head. Type VI. (F) Necklace of fluted lapis ball beads. (G) Frontlet of beads in 7 rows, gold, bugle, carnelian ring beads, lapis bugles. (H) Necklace of lapis & gold triangles. (I) Necklace of alternate lapis & silver double conoids. (J) Miniature vase of light drab clay, part of rim missing. |
| 11413A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Copper Pin. (B) Copper finger ring plain wire ring with overlapping ends. (C) Silver finger ring the bezel straight: made of double wire with ends overlapping. |
| 11421 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Plain, with spike head. |
| 11433 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Plain tang head. [Type] I. |
| 11439A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal & pin. [A] Copper pin with plain tang head stem thickened & pierced near top. [B] To this was attached a cylinder seal of brown clay with a scene of 2 men fighting animals, roughly engraved. |
| 11452D | 30-12-367 | (none) | B18086 | Group. Consisting of [A] (1) a cylinder seal of red baked clay with white slip: in poor condition but interesting for its fabric. It is attached to part of a copper pin. Inscription EN-dUtu(?); [B] (2) a few beads of lapis and silver, mixed types; [C] (3) a silver hair-ring, 5 spiral coils of thin wire; [D] (4) a copper pin, point missing. | |
| 11470A | 30-12-365.2 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Copper pins. Corroded together. One square in cross section with tang head, one round in section with no head. Type IX. | |
| 11490A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin [A]& cylinder seal. [B] Copper pin plain, tang head (tang) broken), to whcih was attached a small white shell cylinder seal with design of a palm tree on one side of which 2 rampant lions, on the other apparently a winged bull (?) the surface very much decayed. |
| 11502 | 30-12-377 | (none) | B18096 | Copper Pin. Plain. [Type] IX. | |
| 11532 | 30-12-383 | (none) | B18102 | Copper Pin. Plain spike head. [Type] I. | |
| 11536 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. With fluted lapis ball head set in gold. [Type] V. |
| 11552 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Pin. With lapis ball head set in gold. Type I (new) |
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