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) | 1927,1003.84 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1927,1003.85 | (none) | (none) |
| 3177 | (none) | 1927,1003.98 | (none) | Fragmentary razor blade. Bronze. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8680 | (none) | 1928,1009.153 | (none) | Gold pin The shaft of gold, the head a large ribbed lapis ball capped with gold |
| 8619 | (none) | 1928,1009.188 | (none) | Silver pin. With fluted ball head of lapis. Capped with gold. |
| 8014 | (none) | 1928,1009.189 | (none) | Copper pin. The head in the shape of a human hand with the thumb raised. [drawing 1:1] |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.236 | (none) | (none) |
| 8990 | (none) | 1928,1009.238 | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened to head and with short tang (tip broken) [Type] I |
| 8542 | (none) | 1928,1009.239 | (none) | Copper pin(?) Square section, slightly thickening to the head where is a slender tang showing marks of having been fixed in wood. [Type] I |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.240 | (none) | (none) |
| 9180 | (none) | 1928,1009.241 | (none) | Copper pin Thickened to head, round in section, short tang [Type] I |
| 9338 | (none) | 1928,1009.243 | (none) | Arrowheads(?) Plain spikes, hollow socketted [struck out: (VII)?] [struck out: type 5c] [type] 3 (new) | |
| 8972 | (none) | 1928,1009.246 | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened to head, short tang. Oxidized on to it is a copper plate 0023x 0022(broken). [Type I] | |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.248 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.251 | (none) | (none) |
| 7969 | (none) | 1928,1009.252 | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened to one end, with a short tang projecting from the thick end: circular section. [type] I |
| 8459A | (none) | 1928,1009.283 | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper pins Turned over heads Thick in section and rounded. [drawing] | |
| 8923 | (none) | 1928,1009.343 | (none) | Copper pin. With head of lapis ball capped with silver. (tip broken: all in very bad condition) [type] V | |
| 7971 | (none) | 1928,1009.344 | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli and gold. The shaft of the pin has swollen and split and only a stump is left with the head on it, - the latter also broken by the swelling of the metal, and part missing. [type] V |
| 8343 | (none) | 1928,1009.345 | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli. Stem broken but complete. [Type] V | |
| 8015 | (none) | 1928,1009.346 | (none) | Copper pin. Plain, with small ball head. [type] V. | |
| 8132 | (none) | 1928,1009.347 | (none) | Pin. Copper with glass ball head. Rectangular in section. [drawing] | |
| 9111 | (none) | 1928,1009.348 | (none) | Copper pin With solid domed head. [drawing] | |
| 9304 | (none) | 1928,1009.350 | (none) | Copper pin Thickened to top of stem and with plain ball head | |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.351 | (none) | (none) |
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