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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11737 | (none) | 1929,1017.560 | (none) | Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. Type V. |
| 11738 | (none) | 1929,1017.561 | (none) | Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V. | |
| 11766B | (none) | 1929,1017.582 | (none) | [A] Copper chisel (broken but complete) Type V. [B] A copper pin plain head. [C] Also, earring of plain silver wire spiral coil. | |
| 11775 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. With lapis ball head striated & capped with gold. Type V.B. |
| 11826A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of Copper Objects. Oxidized together. [A] (1) Copper Pin; type I. [B] (2) Copper Bowl: hemispherical. [C] (3) Copper Tumbler(?) or box(?) (the top not visible, being inside the bowl). |
| 11835 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Silver Pin. With plain lapis ball head and [B, C] a pair of hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, each hair-ring, 2 spirals interlaced. |
| 11842B | (none) | 1929,1017.590 | (none) | Copper Tools, etc. (A) Copper Axe, type IX (B) Pin, plain head (C) Pin, plain tang head. |
| 11842C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Tools, etc. (A) Copper Axe, type IX (B) Pin, plain head (C) Pin, plain tang head. |
| 11847 | (none) | 1929,1017.593 | (none) | Copper Pin. Type VI, A. Very slender. | |
| 11883E | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 Roundels, [A-B] 2 of shell, [C] 1 of shale, [D] and an oval-topped shell button inlaid with a rosette of red & blue petals. D. 220mm [E] Broken pin of type VI, but with head missing; possibly this is all one composite pin-head, or perhaps only the roundels are such, as they would give just the effect of a lapis ball set in gold or silver. [drawing] |
| 11888 | (none) | 1929,1017.558 | (none) | Copper Pin. With ball head of lapis. Type V, A. |
| 11890 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin(?) Fragment of, with round the stem a band of electrum to which is fastened a ring of flat beaded electrum. [Drawing 1:1] |
| 11903 | (none) | 1929,1017.6 | (none) | Gold Pin. With lapis head capped with gold Type VI, B. | |
| 11931A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. (with this, [B-C] 2 silver finger rings: see box U.11930) |
| 11948 | 30-12-491 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. With striated lapis ball head capped with gold (the stem broken into 5 bits) | |
| 11953 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Pin. With lapis ball head (stem broken). [Type] V. |
| 11963 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Pin. Triangular head. [drawing 1:1] |
| 11970A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper Pin. Type VI B. With it a [B] cylinder seal of green calcite(?) much decayed: 2 registers with seated figures, archaic. |
| 11983B | 30-12-364 | (none) | (none) | [A] Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. 3 [regetration? illegible] gods & attendants. With it [B] copper pin with plain rounded head. | |
| 11985 | (none) | 1929,1017.601 | (none) | Copper Pin. With small lapis ball head (broken into 4 bits) Type V, D. | |
| 11997 | (none) | 1929,1017.566 | (none) | Copper Pin. Type II. | |
| 12004B | (none) | 1929,1017.572 | (none) | [A] Cylinder Seal Black Steatite with this a [B] copper pin, plain tang head. Type II. |
| 12008A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. [A] Type II. [B] a second, with lapis head (broken) Type V. [C] a third, Type II (broken) (this not certainly from the grave). |
| 12008B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. [A] Type II. [B] a second, with lapis head (broken) Type V. [C] a third, Type II (broken) (this not certainly from the grave). |
| 12008C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. [A] Type II. [B] a second, with lapis head (broken) Type V. [C] a third, Type II (broken) (this not certainly from the grave). |
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