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)
7863 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli and gold shaft has round section. Head thus: [drawing]
7971 (none) 1928,1009.344 (none) Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli and gold. The shaft of the pin has swollen and split and only a stump is left with the head on it, - the latter also broken by the swelling of the metal, and part missing. [type] V
8355 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin with ball head of lapis(?) capped with silver. The whole in very bad condition, split open in every direction by decay, and broken. [Type] V
7864 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin with ball head of white shell (?) set in silver as in U.7863, the metal is a cap of thin foilover the ball. Broken, and the head in bad condition.
7991 (none) (none) B17424 Copper pin with head [drawing] tanged thus [type] I
7979 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin with lapis ball head [type] V
8152 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin with lapis ball head. [Type] V
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.
8542 (none) 1928,1009.239 (none) Copper pin(?) Square section, slightly thickening to the head where is a slender tang showing marks of having been fixed in wood. [Type] I
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]
14498 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin(?). One end sharply pointed, the haft round in section, the other end slightly pointed.
14018 31-17-251 (none) (none) Copper Pin, Lapis ball head. Striaght type. Broken in 2 pieces. Type V.A.
19102 35-1-479 (none) (none) Copper pin, broken. Having for a head the head of a horned demon or god.
19101 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin, part of. Having near the head end the figure of a seated calf.
10726 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Elongated knob head. Rounded in section Type I
8086 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Circular section to shaft, hole near head: head pointed. [type] IV. [drawing]
9032 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Common type. Broken in 3 pieces. [Type] I
8955 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Plain, thickening to head and with a short projecting tang. (broken into 3). [Type] I
8015 (none) 1928,1009.346 (none) Copper pin. Plain, with small ball head. [type] V.
8158 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Round shaft thickening to head with long tang.
8092 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Round shaft thickening upwards and ending with a straight tang. [type] I.
9031 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Rounded head. Rectangular in section. [drawing] 1:1
9081 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Rounded in section Broken in 2 pieces [drawing] [Type] I
9029 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Rounded in section. [Type] I [drawing]
9044 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Rounded in section. Head narrower than the stem of the pin. The head is covered by a cap of gold foil. Pin broken in two pieces. Only half of gold cap remains. Tip missing [drawing]

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