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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.251 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.374 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.364 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.363 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.362 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.352 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.351 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1010.120 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.76 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.73 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.75 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.72 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.74 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.71 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.77 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1932,1008.25 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1919,1011.5118 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1919,1011.5117 | (none) | (none) |
| 9289B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A and B] Copper pins [A] Round stem thickened to head short tang [type] I [B] another smiilar |
| (none) | 30-12-330 | (none) | B18049 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-363 | (none) | B18082 | (none) | |
| 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. | |
| 11470B | 30-12-365.1 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Copper pins. Corroded together. One square in cross section with tang head, one round in section with no head. Type IX. |
| 11470A | 30-12-365.2 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Copper pins. Corroded together. One square in cross section with tang head, one round in section with no head. Type IX. | |
| 11707 | 30-12-366 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Plain tang head. |
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