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)
17631 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Obsidian. [drawing 1:1]
17632 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Shell. [drawing 1:1]
17901 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Silver. Type No. V. [Type] RC.1 [drawing 1:1]
2573 (none) (none) (none) Pin. White stone. Point missing. [drawing 1:1]
16371 31-43-127 (none) (none) Pins(?). Ivory. 10 in all. Tips mostly missing. [drawing]
3178 (none) 1927,1003.83 (none) Polished malachite (?) fragment, transfixed with bronze pin, turned into an eye at one end. [drawing 9:10]
6778B (none) 1927,0527.69 (none) Scarab setting of gold and gold studs. E.
16809 (none) 1933,1013.52 (none) Shell cylinder seal (not pierced). ^dAdad-ba(?)-ni(?) ,dumu Nu-ur- ^dAdad...
8617 (none) (none) B16776 Silver hair ornament(?) [drawing]
9711 (none) (none) (none) Silver Pin Elongated knob head Tip missing Rounded in section, broken in 2 pieces. [drawing] 1:1 Type I
10352 (none) (none) (none) Silver Pin Lapis ball head with silver cap under side Type V
9632 (none) (none) B16933 Silver Pin Plain rounded head Type IX
8404 (none) (none) (none) Silver pin Round in section. Ball head of stone, originally gold plated. Broken in 2 pieces. [Type] V.
9216 (none) (none) (none) Silver pin Rounded in section [drawing] [type] IX
9565 (none) (none) (none) Silver Pin Rounded stem [drawing] 1:1 Type IX
9962 (none) (none) B17075 Silver Pin The shaft bent, & pierced Lapis ball head Type VI
10792 (none) (none) B17573 Silver Pin Tip broken 3 small beads adhering to stem Circular in section Type IX [drawing]
9816 (none) 1928,1010.269 (none) Silver Pin Tip missing Possibly a hair pin. cf. Field Note. Rounded in section [drawing] Type IX
10176 (none) (none) (none) Silver Pin Upper portion of stem bent over Small silver ball head Rounded in section at top; square in middle and rounded below Type VI Variant [drawing 1:1]
8162 (none) (none) (none) Silver pin with fluted ball head of lapis. Capped with gold. There is a hole through the top end of the shaft and affixed against one end of the hole is a small carnelian ring bead. It looks as if a string had been passed through the hole with a head at the end of it to prevent its slipping out; in that case, the pin must have acted as a true toggle. [Type] V.
9982 (none) (none) B16785 Silver Pin With fluted lapis ball head Type V
10888 (none) 1928,1010.126 (none) Silver Pin with lapis ball head (stem broken) Type V
9984 (none) (none) B17681 Silver Pin With lapis ball head (shaft broken) Type V
10887 (none) (none) (none) Silver pin with lapis ball head capped with gold Type V
10569 (none) 1928,1010.121 (none) Silver Pin With lapis ball head, the stem broken off Type V

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