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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12606 | 30-12-375 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Tang head. Broken. Type II. | |
 | 8014 | (none) | 1928,1009.189 | (none) | Copper pin. The head in the shape of a human hand with the thumb raised. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8302 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened at the head end and tanged. I. |
| 8530 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened slightly to the head and provided with a short tang. (broken) I. |
| 8503 | (none) | (none) | B17383 | Copper pin. Thickened to head and with a short tang (broken). | |
| 7969 | (none) | 1928,1009.252 | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened to one end, with a short tang projecting from the thick end: circular section. [type] I |
| 19441 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Type 1 with ball head made of shell and balck steatite to imitate banded agate. Stem broken. |
| 20067 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Type 1. With ball head made of two pieces of shell and one of shale stuck together to imitate banded sard. |
| 19190 | (none) | 1935,0112.27 | (none) | Copper pin. Type 6. [drawing] head thus. | |
| 11997 | (none) | 1929,1017.566 | (none) | Copper Pin. Type II. | |
| 12028 | (none) | 1929,1017.567 | (none) | Copper Pin. Type II. | |
| 12090 | (none) | 1929,1017.588 | (none) | Copper Pin. Type II. | |
| 12156 | 30-12-409 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Type II. |
| 11847 | (none) | 1929,1017.593 | (none) | Copper Pin. Type VI, A. Very slender. | |
| 8027 | (none) | (none) | B17467 | Copper pin. With ball head and lapis capped with silver. The shaft much decayed and broken into 5 pieces. | |
| 8016 | (none) | B16765 | (none) | Copper pin. WIth ball head of carnelian and gold. Shaft broken and much of it missing. [type] V | |
| 11888 | (none) | 1929,1017.558 | (none) | Copper Pin. With ball head of lapis. Type V, A. |
| 9967 | (none) | 1928,1010.359 | (none) | Copper Pin. With bent shaft and lapis ball head (broken) Type VI. | |
| 8547 | (none) | (none) | B17429 | Copper pin. With curled-over head. [drawing] VII. | |
| 18461 | 33-35-79 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With decorated head thus: [reference to drawing] [drawing] | |
| 11209 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. With elongated knob head. Square in section above. Tip missing. Type I. [drawing] |
| 11536 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. With fluted lapis ball head set in gold. [Type] V. |
| 13034 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With grotesque horned head. See pin types. Tip missing. |
| 11775 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. With lapis ball head striated & capped with gold. Type V.B. |
| 7978 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With lapis ball head. Point broken [type] V |
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