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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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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