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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15149B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper pins. One has lapis lazuli ball head. Broken. |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| 11230K | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head Ornament. (A) Gold ribbon. (B) Wreath of carnelian & lapis lazuli beads with gold mulberry leaf pendants. (C) [C.1-.2] Pair large lunate gold earrings. (D) Silver head ornament with inlaid rosette finials-gold, silver & shell. (E) [E and K] 2 silver pins with bent heads capped by a lapis ball head. Type VI. (F) Necklace of fluted lapis ball beads. (G) Frontlet of beads in 7 rows, gold, bugle, carnelian ring beads, lapis bugles. (H) Necklace of lapis & gold triangles. (I) Necklace of alternate lapis & silver double conoids. (J) Miniature vase of light drab clay, part of rim missing. |
| 12360H | (none) | 1929,1017.229 | (none) | Group. Comprising: [A.1-.2] Pair of large gold lunate earrings. [B.1-.2] Pair of silver wire spiral coil hair rings. [C.1-.2] Lapis and some carnelian beads. [D-G] Shell rings. [H Silver pin. Listed on BM record] |
| 11462B | (none) | 1929,1017.595 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Subject: seated deity & attendant. With this, probably fastened to it, was a (B) copper pin L. 012, same number L. 20mm D. 11mm | |
| 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. | |
| 16286H | (none) | 1931,1010.235 | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
| 16286I | (none) | 1931,1010.235 | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
| 12022B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper Knife & [B] Pin. Corroded together. Knife, type II, C. Pin plain head [Type] 1X. |
| 12373L | (none) | 1929,1017.193 | (none) | Group: [A] Gold hair ribbon. [B.1-.2] 2 gold large lunate earrings. [C] Wreath of gold leaves on lapis and carnelian beads. [D.1-.2] 2 silver wire spiral coil hair rings. [E] Necklace of gold and lapis triangles. [F] Necklace of lapis double conoid and gold double conoid beads (for order see field notes). [G.1-.2] Necklace of 2 rows of silver beads. [H-K] Cockleshells with greenish paint. [L Toggle Pin] |
| (none) | 98-9-129 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 98-9-130 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 98-9-72 | (none) | (none) | (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) |
| (none) | 31-17-247O | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247P | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247J | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247R | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 98-9-128 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-526 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
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