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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12715B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Necklace. Small lapis and silver beads. [B] (2) Copper pin. Type VI B. With lapis ball head. Tip broken [C] (3) Silver wire earring 2 1/2 spiral coils. [D] (4) Silver hair ribbon. Fragments in poor condition. |
| 12723E | 30-12-473 | (none) | B18193 | Group of copper vessels and a copper pin. Found corroded together. [A] (1) Copper strainer [Type] (new 96). [B] (2) Oval bowl. Distorted [Type] LXIII (new 7). [C] (3) Hemispherical bowl [Type] III (new 4). [D] (4) Cylindrical vase: same as U.12711. Type XV (?LVII new 44). [E] Copper pin with carnelian double conoid head. Tip missing, straight type [Type] IV (New 3). | |
| 12732 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold pin. Lapis ball head with gold caps. Type V B. |
| 12778F | 31-17-352T | (none) | (none) | Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design]. | |
| 13034 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With grotesque horned head. See pin types. Tip missing. |
| 13547 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Circular in section. Lapis disc shaped head. Badly broken. [drawing] |
| 13551 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Curled head. Type VII. |
| 13554 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Lapis ball head with gold caps. Type V A. |
| 13557 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Bent type. tip missing. Lapis head with gold caps. Type VI. B. |
| 13562 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Bent type. Lapis ball head with gold caps. Type. VI. C. |
| 13595 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver pin. Lapis ball head (broken) Type. V.A. |
| 13600A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Copper pin. Bent type VI,B. (B) [B-C] and pair of silver earrings 2 1/2 coils. Pin has copper wire binding round upper portion of stem. |
| 13781 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Pin. With fluted lapis ball head. Type V.B. |
| 14018 | 31-17-251 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin, Lapis ball head. Striaght type. Broken in 2 pieces. Type V.A. | |
| 14030 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With glazed ball head. Straight type. Type V, A. |
| 14054 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Steatite(?) ball head. Tip of pin missing. Type V, A. |
| 14061 | 31-17-266 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Bent. type. Type VI, A. | |
| 14081B | 31-17-254 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 manicure implements. [A] Copper tweezers & [B] kohl(?) stick. Bound at top with copper wire. | |
| 14203 | (none) | (none) | B9609 | Silver pin. Lapis lazuli. Ball head with gold caps. Type V, A. |
| 14245A | 31-17-245 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper pins. With rolled heads. 1 has tip missing. Type VII. | |
| 14268 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rolled head. Tip missing. Type VII. |
| 14298 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Straight type. Circular in section. Broken 3 pieces. Type I. |
| 14302 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Circular in section. Type 1. |
| 14308 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Straight type. Lapis lazuli ball head. Perforated for suspension.. Tip missing.Type V,A. |
| 14311 | 31-17-250 | (none) | (none) | Copper spindle whorl. Tip missing. Type IV, B. [Notes and drawings on back of card] |
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