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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10839 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin With coiled head Type VII |
| 10845 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin with plain rounded head Type IX |
| 10870 | (none) | 1928,1010.12 | (none) | Gold Pin With plain head of lapis capped with gold Type V |
| 10887 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver pin with lapis ball head capped with gold Type V |
| 10888 | (none) | 1928,1010.126 | (none) | Silver Pin with lapis ball head (stem broken) Type V |
| 10938 | (none) | (none) | B16908 | Gold Triangle-headed pin. ? Feather holder? [drawing 1:1] | |
| 10940 | (none) | (none) | B16729 | Gold Pin. With lapis ball head. Type V. On the right upper arm with the cylinder seal U.10939 |
| 10941 | (none) | 1928,1010.13 | (none) | Gold Pin. With lapis ball head. Type V. On right upper arm with cylinder seal U.10872. |
| 10999 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Pin. With lapis ball head capped with gold. Type V. near I. |
| 11000 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Curved type. With lapis ball head capped with gold. Broken & point missing. Type IV. New 7. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 11168 | (none) | 1928,1010.125 | (none) | Silver Pin. WIth plain lapis ball head. Type V. |
| 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. |
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