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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12171 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Circular in section. Broken. [Type] V. |
| 12142 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Plain type. Circular in section. |
| 12235 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Straight type. Circular in section. [Type] V. |
| 12248 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Lapis lazuli ball head. [Type] V. |
| 7880 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Mushroom-shaped head, round shaft, pointed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 11532 | 30-12-383 | (none) | B18102 | Copper Pin. Plain spike head. [Type] I. | |
| 12333 | (none) | 1929,1017.597 | (none) | Copper Pin. Plain straight type. | |
| 11707 | 30-12-366 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Plain tang head. | |
| 11224 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Plain tang head. Type I. |
| 11226 | (none) | (none) | B17492 | Copper pin. Plain tang head. Type I. | |
| 11433 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Plain tang head. [Type] I. |
| 11421 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Plain, with spike head. |
| 11502 | 30-12-377 | (none) | B18096 | Copper Pin. Plain. [Type] IX. | |
| 8026 | (none) | (none) | B17461 | Copper pin. Point missing. The shaft widens above and is pierced by a small hole; then it thins down and bends over and ends in a large ball head (the material perhaps a paste) originally capped with silver which has now almost all gone. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8742 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Ribbed silver ball head. Rounded in section - broken in 4 pieces. [drawing] [type] V |
| 8665 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Round section, stem thickening towards head and ending in a short tang. [type] I |
| 8750 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded end thick in section. [drawing] [type] I |
| 8795 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section [Type] IX |
| 8760 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section. Lapis? ball head with gold ring round middle. [Type] V |
| 9229 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section. Thickened head. [drawing] |
| 7970 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Similar in type to U.7969. Broken across middle. [type] I |
| 11125 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Square in section. With carnelian ball head with a gold cap below. Tip missing. [Type] V |
| 8671 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Stem circular in section, thickening to head. In bad condition. |
| 8629 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Stem thickened and pierced, then bent over the ball head [drawing] [Type] VI |
| 12700 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Straight with small flattened lapis double conoid bead head. [Type] IV. |
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