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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12247 | 30-12-395 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Copper ball head. Circular in section. Tip broken. [Type] V. [drawing] | |
| (none) | 30-12-396 | (none) | B18115 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-397 | (none) | B18116 | (none) | |
| 12189 | 30-12-398 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Circular in section. | |
| 11600B | 30-12-399A | (none) | B18118 | [A-B] Cylinder Seal & Pin. White shell cylinder, geometric pattern. Found with the copper pin plain head. [drawing] | |
| 12638C | 30-12-400 | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper pin. [B] (2) Copper pin. [C] (3) Copper pin. [D] (4) Silver earring spiral coils thickened lunate ends. [E] (5) Beads - minute. Lapis bugles, carnelian rings, lapis lentoids, white paste tristed bugles. | |
| (none) | 30-12-401.1 | (none) | B18120 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-401.2 | (none) | B18120 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-401.3 | (none) | B18120 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-401.4 | (none) | B18120 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-401.5 | (none) | B18120 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-401.6 | (none) | B18120 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-401.7 | (none) | B18120 | (none) | |
 | (none) | 30-12-402 | (none) | B18121 | (none) |
| (none) | 30-12-404 | (none) | B18123 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-405 | (none) | B18124 | (none) | |
| 12602 | 30-12-408 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Type V. B. |
| 12156 | 30-12-409 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. Type II. |
| (none) | 30-12-410 | (none) | B18129 | (none) | |
| 14952 | 30-12-415 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Straight and pointed at each end. | |
| 12350B | 30-12-416 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal & Copper Pin. (A) Cylinder seal. Spread eagle. (B) Copper Pin. Circular in section. | |
| (none) | 30-12-418 | (none) | B18137 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-419 | (none) | B18138 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-420 | (none) | B18139 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-421 | (none) | B18140 | (none) |
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