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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1704 | (none) | 1924,0920.236 | (none) | Bronze stilus. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 17048 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Tip missing. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17119 | (none) | 1931,1010.149 | (none) | Pin of black chert (?) [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] | |
| 17431 | (none) | 1931,1010.262 | (none) | Pin head [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 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] |
| 17911H | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group from one burial. (A) Gold frontlet. (B) 3 twisted gold hair ribbons [B and I-J], (C) 2 gold hair rings [C and K], spirally coiled with hollow lunate ends. (D) 2 necklaces [D and L], one of gold ribbed balls between agate lentoids, the other of flat agate lentoids, 1 flat barrel lapis lazuli, 2 carnelian bugles, 1 granite lentoid. 3 double conoid lapis lazuli, 1 flat barrel amber. (E) Shell cylinder seal. Obscured. (F) Silver spiral finger ring (G) 2 silver bracelets (H) Silver pin, round with square tang |
| 17927 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Toggle. Bone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18244B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper (?) [A] dagger and [B] pin. Pin thickened to head there cut off flat. Dagger with 3 rivet holes in tang. Type: Knife RC.7b [drawing] |
| 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] |
| 18879B | (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. |
| 18929C | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Beads: carnelian date-shaped and cylindrical, one of the latter with bleached spiral line and rings: lapis double conoids and paste ditto steatite tubular, chisel pendant, frog amulet, and quartzite flat truncated date-shaped. (B) Two hair-rings of thin gold wire, five spiral coils. Also [C] a copper pin, type 2a. [C] a copper pin, type 2a. |
| 18943F | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) Gold earring, small lunate type. (B) Silver finger ring, plain wire hoop. (C) Silver hair ring, 2 coils of plain wire. (D) Gold twisted ribbon fillet, with hole at each end. (E) Beads: lapis diamonds and tubes, crystal rings, silver diamonds and balls and small blue glaze cylinders. (F) Copper pin, type 8. (G) Copper reticule. |
| 19100 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. The head in the form of a female head with elaborately dressed hair. The point anciently broken. |
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