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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10049B | (none) | (none) | B17520.2 | Copper spear-heads [struck out: "eleven" and "twelve"] thirteen all of the solid poker type, square in section write chisel-ended clamp No 11 had round it the copper collar from the end of the shaft (broken) | |
| 11600B | 30-12-399A | (none) | B18118 | [A-B] Cylinder Seal & Pin. White shell cylinder, geometric pattern. Found with the copper pin plain head. [drawing] | |
| 11983B | 30-12-364 | (none) | (none) | [A] Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. 3 [regetration? illegible] gods & attendants. With it [B] copper pin with plain rounded head. | |
 | 12022B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper Knife & [B] Pin. Corroded together. Knife, type II, C. Pin plain head [Type] 1X. |
| (none) | 98-9-129 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 98-9-130 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 98-9-72 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17690 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-418 | (none) | B18137 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-376 | (none) | B18095 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-381 | (none) | B18100 | (none) |
| (none) | 30-12-384 | (none) | B18103 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-385 | (none) | B18104 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-388 | (none) | B18107 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-392 | (none) | B18111 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-396 | (none) | B18115 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-410 | (none) | B18129 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-419 | (none) | B18138 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-420 | (none) | B18139 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-421 | (none) | B18140 | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-17-247A | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247C | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247G | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247I | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247N | (none) | (none) | (none) |
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