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) 98-9-69 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 98-9-70 (none) (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) (none) 1919,1011.5054 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5056 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5117 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5118 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5123 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5349 (none) (none)
1584C (none) 1924,0920.231 (none) (none)
1704 (none) 1924,0920.236 (none) Bronze stilus. [drawing 1:1]
1402 (none) 1924,0920.408 (none) Pin head(?) Lapis lazuli and gold, much incrusted with salt, etc.
1400 (none) 1924,0920.409 (none) Bronze ring. Small. [drawing 1:1]
6190 (none) 1927,0527.101 (none) Copper? Pin. Scale 1:2. E. [drawing 1:2]
6530 (none) 1927,0527.102 (none) Nail. Bronze. Broken near top. E.
(none) (none) 1927,0527.103 (none) (none)
6151 (none) 1927,0527.104 (none) Copper pin. Bead head of lapis lazuli. E. [drawing]
6107 (none) 1927,0527.105 (none) Bronze bodkin. Broken in two pieces. E. [drawing 1:1]
6491 (none) 1927,0527.106 (none) Bronze pin. Hole pierced in top. E.
6619 (none) 1927,0527.107 (none) Pin bronze. Hole in top. E. [drawing]
6509 (none) 1927,0527.108 (none) Pin bronze. E.
6776A (none) 1927,0527.68 B16299 Gold nob. E.
6778B (none) 1927,0527.69 (none) Scarab setting of gold and gold studs. E.
6777B (none) 1927,0527.70 (none) NOB. Steatite and gold rosette. Fragmentary. Burnt. [drawing 1:1]
3178 (none) 1927,1003.83 (none) Polished malachite (?) fragment, transfixed with bronze pin, turned into an eye at one end. [drawing 9:10]

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