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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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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