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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