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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12707M | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Stone vase, white calcite. For type see field ntoes. [Type] LXXVI. [B] (2) Stone bowl, white calcite. Broken badly. Type XIX. [C] (3) Copper lamp normal type cut as a shell. L. 140mm. L. of spout 100mm with ring at end for suspension. [D] (4) Beads. Carnelian rings probably a bracelet with thin silver wire bracelets elliptical, broken and decayed. [E] (5) Silver wire finger ring. [F] (6) Frontlet of beads. 1 lapis bugle and 2 carnelian bugles [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Shell. Much decayed. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli originally suspended on a silver wire. Subject. [I] (9) Copper strainer. Corroded with it. Normal type. [J] (10) A copper tumbler. Straight sided [Type] LVII. [K] (11) Copper axe type XXI. [L] (12) Copper holdfasts. Croquet hook type. [drawing] [M] (13) Copper pin. Type V B. Lapis ball head corroded with: [N] 14) Copper dagger type II B. |
| 12709C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] 1) Copper axe. Poor condition. Type XXI. [B] 2) Copper dagger. Type II F. [C] 3) Copper pin. Lapis ball head. [D-G] 4) Four models of boats - baked clay bellums with curved prows and sterns. [H] 5) Baked clay goblet with broad stand. Broken. Type. |
| 12711H | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper dagger. Type II E. [B] (2) Copper reticule. [C] (3) Stone bowl. Calcite. Type LI. [drawing 2:5] [D] (4) Carnelian bugle beads - three probably worn round forehead. [E] (5) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXXIV. [drawing 3:5] [F] (6) Silver earring. 1 1/2 spiral coils lunate ended. [G] (7) Copper vase. Cylindrical. Type LVII. [drawing 2:5] [H] (8)Copper pin. Type V B with lapis ball head. [I] (9) Copper axe. Type XX. [J] (10) Bowl greyish stone. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Type XVIII. [K] (11) Beads small lapis and silver double conoids. Carnelian lentoids. [drawing 1:5] [L] (12) Cylinder seal. Lentoid shaped. 2 registers. Gazelles (?). Lapis lazuli. |
| 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. |
| 12732 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold pin. Lapis ball head with gold caps. Type V B. |
| 12774E | (none) | 1928,1010.744 | (none) | Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 14203 | (none) | (none) | B9609 | Silver pin. Lapis lazuli. Ball head with gold caps. Type V, A. |
| 14268 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rolled head. Tip missing. Type VII. |
| 14290 | (none) | 1930,1213.489 | (none) | Copper chisel. Minute. Sq. in section. Type VII R. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 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. |
| 14473A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold pin. Lapis lazuli ball head with gold caps. Type V. |
| 14484 | (none) | 1930,1213.532 | (none) | Bone pin with decorated head (point broken). [drawing 1:1] |
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