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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11553 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Pin. With fluted lapis ball head. Type I (new) |
| 11597C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. [A](1) Shell, cut as a lamp & engraved with the head & neck of a bird (the eye orginally inlaid but inlay is missing) [drawing] [B](2) Copper Dagger (broken). Type IV; [C](3) Copper pin with lapis ball head (broken)[Type] V. |
| 11707 | 30-12-366 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Plain tang head. | |
| 11710A | 30-12-390 | (none) | B18109 | Group. (A) Copper Pin with fluted head (broken) (B) A quantity of lapis double conoid beads.; (C) Cockle shells with green & blue paint. | |
| 11726 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Pin with plain lapis ball head capped with gold. |
| 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. |
| 11842C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Tools, etc. (A) Copper Axe, type IX (B) Pin, plain head (C) Pin, plain tang head. |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 12037 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Broken & tip missing. [Type] V. |
| 12044 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Pin. With ball head of lapis (stem broken) Type VI, B. |
| 12054 | 30-12-380 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain head. | |
| 12056C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group: [A.1-.2] (A) 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. (B) Lapis Lazuli beads: double conoids; (C) Copper Pin, plain head. (broken); [D-F] (D) 3 cockle shells: black & green paint. |
| 12057A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group: (A) Copper Pin bent head, Type VI, A. (B) Beads: Lapis lazuli double conoids and some silver; (C) cockle shell with paint; (D)[D.1-.2] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. |
| 12063C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) 17 large lapis double conoid BEADS (B) Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed, 2 registers. Seated deity. Presentation. (C) Copper Pin, tip missing, broken. [Drawing of head] |
| 12065B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. (A) Silver earring, 2 1/2 coils; (B) Silver pin, lapis ball head. Tip bent and end missing. (C) Beads; lapis double conoids. |
| 12070B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) Beads. lapis lazuli ovoids and silver. (B) Copper pin with rounded copper head, badly smashed. |
| 12074B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) Beads: lapis lazuli double conoids (B) Copper pin, rounded head; badly broken. |
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