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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9535 | (none) | (none) | B16916 | Copper Pin Plain tang head (broken) Type I | |
| 9632 | (none) | (none) | B16933 | Silver Pin Plain rounded head Type IX | |
| 9516 | (none) | (none) | B16944 | Copper pin Plain head Broken and in bad condition Type IX | |
| 9588 | (none) | (none) | B16949 | Copper Pin. Elongated knob head. Tip missing. Rounded in section. Type I. [drawing] | |
| 9599 | (none) | (none) | B16954 | Copper Pin Rounded in section [drawing] Type IX | |
 | 10584D | (none) | (none) | B16982 | Head Ornaments. (A) Quantity of gold ribbon., (B) Gold wreath, leaf pendants with double string of lapis and carnelian beads. (C) [.1-.2] Pair of large gold lunate earrings. (D)Silver pin with lapis head. (E) Silver hair ornament, 3-pronged, with rosette finials of gold, lapis and shell. (F) Double conoid beads, gold and lapis (see field notes) (G) Beads, lapis and silver (H) [H and L] 2 silver earrings, plain wire spirals [I] [Not assigned] (J)Cockleshells containing paint. (K) Silver pin, rounded head, L. 150mm |
| 10584K | (none) | (none) | B16982 | Head Ornaments. (A) Quantity of gold ribbon., (B) Gold wreath, leaf pendants with double string of lapis and carnelian beads. (C) [.1-.2] Pair of large gold lunate earrings. (D)Silver pin with lapis head. (E) Silver hair ornament, 3-pronged, with rosette finials of gold, lapis and shell. (F) Double conoid beads, gold and lapis (see field notes) (G) Beads, lapis and silver (H) [H and L] 2 silver earrings, plain wire spirals [I] [Not assigned] (J)Cockleshells containing paint. (K) Silver pin, rounded head |
| 9964 | (none) | (none) | B16996 | Copper pin. Bent shaft, lapis head. Type VI. | |
| 10833C | (none) | (none) | B16997 | Tomb Group A. Beads: lapis double conoids. B. [B and D] 2 silver earrings, wire spiral coils C. Copper pin with bent stem and plain ball head (broken) Type VI B? |
| 9302 | (none) | (none) | B17013 | Copper pin |
| 9720 | (none) | (none) | B17022 | Copper Pin Elongated knob head Type I | |
| 9722 | (none) | (none) | B17023 | Copper Pin Elongated knob head Type I |
| 9962 | (none) | (none) | B17075 | Silver Pin The shaft bent, & pierced Lapis ball head Type VI | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17281 | (none) | |
| 11145 | (none) | (none) | B17282 | Copper Pin. Elongated knob head. Square in section above, rounded below. Type I. | |
| 9734 | (none) | (none) | B17316 | Copper Pin Broken in 2 pieces Rounded in section [drawing] Type IX | |
| 9525 | (none) | (none) | B17317 | Copper Tool Triangular top (broken) [drawing] 1:1 Type VII | |
| 9576 | (none) | (none) | B17318 | Copper Pin Plain tang head (broken) Type I |
| 9866 | (none) | (none) | B17342 | Copper Pin One end rounded off [drawing] Type IX? | |
| 9257 | (none) | (none) | B17381 | Copper pin Head rolled round. [drawing] | |
| 8992 | (none) | (none) | B17382 | Copper pin. Thickened to head and with no tang. [Type] IX | |
| 8503 | (none) | (none) | B17383 | Copper pin. Thickened to head and with a short tang (broken). | |
| 8766 | (none) | (none) | B17384 | Copper pin. With ribbed lapis ball head discolored by heat. Rounded in section. Only the middle portion of the lapis ball head was showing. The upper and lower portions originally had a silver cap. Only a fragment of this remains. Pin is perforated below head. [drawing] |
| 8649 | (none) | (none) | B17389 | Copper pin. Circular section, stem pierced and thickening to head: short tang(?) broken off. I. | |
| 8061 | (none) | (none) | B17423 | Copper pin. With lapis ball head capped with silver. [Type] V. |
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