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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12069C | (none) | 1929,1017.293 | (none) | Group: (A) Beads. lapis lazuli double conoids; silver double conoids. (B) Cockle shell (broken) containing green paint. (C) Copper pin: hopeless condition. |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.460 | (none) | (none) |
| 11888 | (none) | 1929,1017.558 | (none) | Copper Pin. With ball head of lapis. Type V, A. |
| 12703B | (none) | 1929,1017.559 | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Silver earring, 2 1/2 spiral wire coils. [B] (2) Copper pin Type V B. Lapis ball head. [C] (3) Lapis and silver double conoids and diamonds, lapis and carnelian bugles and carnelian barrels. [D] (4) Silver finger ring. [E] (5) Stone vase white calcite variant, Type I. | |
| 11737 | (none) | 1929,1017.560 | (none) | Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. Type V. |
| 11738 | (none) | 1929,1017.561 | (none) | Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V. | |
| 12045 | (none) | 1929,1017.562 | (none) | Silver Pin. With ball head of lapis capped with silver (stem & head broken) Type VI, B. |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.563 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.564 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.565 | (none) | (none) |
| 11997 | (none) | 1929,1017.566 | (none) | Copper Pin. Type II. | |
| 12028 | (none) | 1929,1017.567 | (none) | Copper Pin. Type II. | |
| 12693A | (none) | 1929,1017.568 | (none) | Group: [A] 1) Copper pin. Straight. Tang head. Type II. [B] 2) Silver wire spiral coil earring. 2 1/2 coils. Broken. [C] And 1 small with thickened ends 1 1/2 coils. [D] Beads, carnelian barrels and lapis balls. [E] Clay offering table. Badly broken. Plan. | |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.569 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.570 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.571 | (none) | (none) |
| 12004B | (none) | 1929,1017.572 | (none) | [A] Cylinder Seal Black Steatite with this a [B] copper pin, plain tang head. Type II. |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.573 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.574 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.575 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.576 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.577 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.578 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.579 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.580 | (none) | (none) |
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