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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14425A | 98-9-75 | (none) | (none) | Copper fibula. Hoop spiral. Type 3. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 14473A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold pin. Lapis lazuli ball head with gold caps. Type V. |
| 14498 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin(?). One end sharply pointed, the haft round in section, the other end slightly pointed. |
| 14952 | 30-12-415 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Straight and pointed at each end. | |
| 15149A | 30-12-473 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper pins. One has lapis lazuli ball head. Broken. |
| 16371 | 31-43-127 | (none) | (none) | Pins(?). Ivory. 10 in all. Tips mostly missing. [drawing] |
| 16395 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone pin(?) Pointed top. Stem rectangular in section decorated on all four faces with incised concentric circles. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16635 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone pin. Square section top-rounded at bottom. Incised decoration on upper portion of stem. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16636 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone Pin. Broken in 3 pieces. Oval in section. Upper portion of stem perforated for suspension, 3 incised grooves decorate upper portion of stem. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17048 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Tip missing. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17406 | 31-43-228 | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Carved head. Tip missing. Tab anal. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17422 | 31-43-564 | (none) | (none) | Kohl? Pin. Iron. Stem circular in section. Tip missing. [drawing] | |
| 17631 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Obsidian. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17632 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Shell. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17800C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: From one grave. (A) Gold fillet, a twisted ribbon: very thin, poor metal. (B) Beads: Small carnelian balls and very small gold balls, fluted. (C) Copper pin, straight, with carnelian ball head. (D) Copper finger ring. |
| 17901 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Silver. Type No. V. [Type] RC.1 [drawing 1:1] |
| 17927 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Toggle. Bone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18426 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. |
| 18461 | 33-35-79 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With decorated head thus: [reference to drawing] [drawing] | |
| 18570 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With small ball head. [drawing] |
| 18739 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone pin. Tip missing. The head in the form of an open human hand. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18879A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pins (two). Type 4. (B) the shorter pin, has the stem flattened and broaded to the head, which is merely bent over, not curled. [drawing] |
| 18897A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation. |
| 18905 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Type 2. |
| 18907 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Type 8, with copper ring through the hole in the stem. |
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