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) | 1928,1009.352 | (none) | (none) |
| 9136 | (none) | 1928,1009.361 | (none) | Copper tool Shaft rectangular in section 0012x0006, curled over to form head: no point. [drawing] | |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.362 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.363 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.364 | (none) | (none) |
| 8458 | (none) | 1928,1009.370 | (none) | Hook. Copper. Broken and mended. |
| 9185 | (none) | 1928,1009.371 | (none) | Copper fork? Or ornamental pin. Made rather like a human hand, the fingers bent slightly forwards [drawing] 1:1 Toilet instrument 2 | |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.374 | (none) | (none) |
| 10870 | (none) | 1928,1010.12 | (none) | Gold Pin With plain head of lapis capped with gold Type V |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1010.120 | (none) | (none) |
| 10569 | (none) | 1928,1010.121 | (none) | Silver Pin With lapis ball head, the stem broken off Type V | |
| 9996 | (none) | 1928,1010.122 | (none) | Silver Pin With lapis head, plain ball Type V |
| 10816C | (none) | 1928,1010.123 | (none) | Tomb Group. (A) Beads from neck: gold double conoids, carnelian rings, lapis double conoids forming top string. Middle string: lapis double conoids. Bottom string: silver double conoids. (B) Fragments of decayed silver earrings. (C) Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. (D) decayed miniature clay vase, pinkish drab friable surface. (E) [E and G] Pair of cockle shells, blue and greenish paint mixed. (F) Five or six shell rings. |
| 10586G | (none) | 1928,1010.124 | (none) | Head Ornaments. A. Gold ribbon B. Wreath of gold leaves with beads of lapis & carnelian. C. Silver pin with 3 arms and rosette finials having fold. D. [.1-.2] Pair of large gold lunate earrings. E. Silver pin with lapis head. F. 1 silver wire spiral coil earring. G. Second silver pin with lapis head, H. Gold and lapis double conoid beads. |
| 11168 | (none) | 1928,1010.125 | (none) | Silver Pin. WIth plain lapis ball head. Type V. |
| 10888 | (none) | 1928,1010.126 | (none) | Silver Pin with lapis ball head (stem broken) Type V |
| 10824B | (none) | 1928,1010.127 | (none) | Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.] |
| 10806B | (none) | 1928,1010.128 | (none) | Tomb Group. A. Beads. small lapis lentoids and some silver. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head Type V | |
| 10941 | (none) | 1928,1010.13 | (none) | Gold Pin. With lapis ball head. Type V. On right upper arm with cylinder seal U.10872. |
| 10445C | (none) | 1928,1010.160 | (none) | [A-D] 4 long slender rods of copper, two silver plated [A,B], two gold plated [C,D]. Corroded together at ? and the gold rods were found apart and are formally 2 distinct rods. Use quite unknown: nothing found with them to explain. | |
| 10822A | (none) | 1928,1010.237 | (none) | Tomb Group. A. Silver pin with fluted lapis ball head and fluted gold cap. Type V. B. Lapis lazuli cylinder seal, 2 registers: Upper: scorpion, kneeling hero fighting rampant lions, (a panther?), a striped zebu, and behind them a standing skirted male figure. Lower: gate of a shrine and within it seated figures drinking through straws, 3 seated figures, and 2 standing attendants. C. Limestone Bowl. Type XII D. Necklace of silver and lapis double conoids with 3 large facetted beads, 2 carnelian, 1 gold. For order see Field Note. |
| 9816 | (none) | 1928,1010.269 | (none) | Silver Pin Tip missing Possibly a hair pin. cf. Field Note. Rounded in section [drawing] Type IX |
| 9817 | (none) | 1928,1010.270 | (none) | Copper Pin Perforated below head to admit a gold ring, 1 1/2 coils of gold wire are wound round the gold ring in one place [drawing] Type IX |
| 10707 | (none) | 1928,1010.279 | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section Elongated knob head Broken in 3 pieces Type I | |
| 10709 | (none) | 1928,1010.280 | (none) | Copper pin Elongated Knob Head Same Type as U10,707 Broken in 4 pieces Type I |
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