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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6509 | (none) | 1927,0527.108 | (none) | Pin bronze. E. | |
 | 6672 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin bronze. Hole in top. Common type. Neo-Babylonian. |
| 6619 | (none) | 1927,0527.107 | (none) | Pin bronze. Hole in top. E. [drawing] | |
| 17431 | (none) | 1931,1010.262 | (none) | Pin head [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 1402 | (none) | 1924,0920.408 | (none) | Pin head(?) Lapis lazuli and gold, much incrusted with salt, etc. |
| 6604 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin head. Bone. Incised criss cross pattern. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6012 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin holder? Metal bronze. Triangular. Rounded at top and base. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17119 | (none) | 1931,1010.149 | (none) | Pin of black chert (?) [drawing 1:1] |
| 8132 | (none) | 1928,1009.347 | (none) | Pin. Copper with glass ball head. Rectangular in section. [drawing] | |
| 8262 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Copper. Top missing. Rectangular in section. Blackened bones originally adhering to it. [drawing] 1:2 [Type] I. |
| 8279 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Silver. Lapis lazuli ball head. Rounded in section. [drawing 1:2] [type] V |
| 8788 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Ball head of copper. Tip missing. |
| 8729 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone, brown. Rounded in section. Engraved oblique parallel lines running down pin. Lines filled in with white paint. Fragment. [drawing] |
| 7068 | (none) | (none) | B16360 | Pin. Bone. Brown. E. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7578 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Brown. Perforated below top. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17406 | 31-43-228 | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Carved head. Tip missing. Tab anal. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6009 | (none) | (none) | B16359 | Pin. Bone. Square in section with knob head. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17048 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Tip missing. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7551 | (none) | (none) | B16771 | Pin. Bone. Yellow. Point missing. Incised decoration at head. Hole perforated below decoration. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Yellowish. Cock's head? [drawing 1:1] |
| 6532 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bronze. B. |
| 11738 | (none) | 1929,1017.561 | (none) | Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V. | |
| 11737 | (none) | 1929,1017.560 | (none) | Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. Type V. |
| 8779 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Copper. Rounded in section. Broken in 3 pieces. [drawing] [type] IX |
| 8121 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Copper. With ball head. Lapis lazuli ball plated with gold at top and bottom central strip plain lapis. [drawing] not to scale. [type V] |
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