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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11452D | 30-12-367 | (none) | B18086 | Group. Consisting of [A] (1) a cylinder seal of red baked clay with white slip: in poor condition but interesting for its fabric. It is attached to part of a copper pin. Inscription EN-dUtu(?); [B] (2) a few beads of lapis and silver, mixed types; [C] (3) a silver hair-ring, 5 spiral coils of thin wire; [D] (4) a copper pin, point missing. | |
| (none) | 30-12-368 | (none) | B18087 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-369 | (none) | B18088 | (none) | |
| 12710D | 30-12-370 | (none) | B18089 | Group: [A] 1) Copper axe. Type XXI. [B-C] 2) Silver wire earrings 2 1/2 spiral coils. [D] 3) Copper pin straight Type II with elongated tang. | |
| (none) | 30-12-371 | (none) | B18090 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-372 | (none) | B18091 | (none) | |
| 12112C | 30-12-373 | (none) | B18092 | 2 Cylinder seals & copper pin. (A) Steatite greenish: 2 registers; above, deer on mountains; below, men fighting animals. Poor cutting. (B) Shell, decayed. Figures & animals. Hopeless no photograph (C) Copper pin plain. | |
| 12606 | 30-12-375 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Tang head. Broken. Type II. | |
| (none) | 30-12-376 | (none) | B18095 | (none) | |
| 11502 | 30-12-377 | (none) | B18096 | Copper Pin. Plain. [Type] IX. | |
| (none) | 30-12-378 | (none) | B18097 | (none) | |
| 12662A | 30-12-379 | (none) | B18098 | Group: [A] (1) Copper pin. Straight. Tang head perforated. [B] (2) Beads. Lapis and carnelian lentoids and balls. | |
| 12054 | 30-12-380 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain head. | |
 | (none) | 30-12-381 | (none) | B18100 | (none) |
| 12680 | 30-12-382 | (none) | (none) | Group. A) Copper Axe L. 014. L. of height 010. Type XXII B) Copper Reticule containing maximum tools on ring L. 0095. Traces of matting in reticule. C)Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli. L. 003 S. 0026. Bird headed man and rampant animals. D) Beads- worn round forehead? 2 carnelian bangles. 1 lapis lamdird? E) Stone bowl. White limestone. [F Copper Pin. Recorded on CBS Register] | |
| 11532 | 30-12-383 | (none) | B18102 | Copper Pin. Plain spike head. [Type] I. | |
| (none) | 30-12-384 | (none) | B18103 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-385 | (none) | B18104 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-386 | (none) | B18105 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-388 | (none) | B18107 | (none) | |
| 11710A | 30-12-390 | (none) | B18109 | Group. (A) Copper Pin with fluted head (broken) (B) A quantity of lapis double conoid beads.; (C) Cockle shells with green & blue paint. | |
| (none) | 30-12-391 | (none) | B18110 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-392 | (none) | B18111 | (none) | |
| 12218 | 30-12-393 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Broken in 2 pieces. Type IX. B. | |
| (none) | 30-12-394 | (none) | B18113 | (none) |
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