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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10597D.1 | (none) | (none) | B17578.1 | Tomb group. A. Beads, lapis double conoids and 1 gold lentoid. B. Silver wire coil earrings. C. Cockle shells with paint. D. [.1-.2]) Copper pin with lapis head (broken) | |
| 10597D.2 | (none) | (none) | B17578.2 | Tomb group. A. Beads, lapis double conoids and 1 gold lentoid. B. Silver wire coil earrings. C. Cockle shells with paint. D. [.1-.2]) Copper pin with lapis head (broken) | |
| 10191 | (none) | (none) | B17596 | Copper Pin Elongated knob head. Broken in 2 pieces. Type I | |
| 9984 | (none) | (none) | B17681 | Silver Pin With lapis ball head (shaft broken) Type V | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17690 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-330 | (none) | B18049 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-363 | (none) | B18082 | (none) | |
| 11452D | 30-12-367 | (none) | B18086 | Group. Consisting of [A] (1) a cylinder seal of red baked clay with white slip: in poor condition but interesting for its fabric. It is attached to part of a copper pin. Inscription EN-dUtu(?); [B] (2) a few beads of lapis and silver, mixed types; [C] (3) a silver hair-ring, 5 spiral coils of thin wire; [D] (4) a copper pin, point missing. | |
| (none) | 30-12-368 | (none) | B18087 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-369 | (none) | B18088 | (none) | |
| 12710D | 30-12-370 | (none) | B18089 | Group: [A] 1) Copper axe. Type XXI. [B-C] 2) Silver wire earrings 2 1/2 spiral coils. [D] 3) Copper pin straight Type II with elongated tang. | |
| (none) | 30-12-371 | (none) | B18090 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-372 | (none) | B18091 | (none) | |
| 12112C | 30-12-373 | (none) | B18092 | 2 Cylinder seals & copper pin. (A) Steatite greenish: 2 registers; above, deer on mountains; below, men fighting animals. Poor cutting. (B) Shell, decayed. Figures & animals. Hopeless no photograph (C) Copper pin plain. | |
| (none) | 30-12-376 | (none) | B18095 | (none) | |
| 11502 | 30-12-377 | (none) | B18096 | Copper Pin. Plain. [Type] IX. | |
| (none) | 30-12-378 | (none) | B18097 | (none) | |
| 12662A | 30-12-379 | (none) | B18098 | Group: [A] (1) Copper pin. Straight. Tang head perforated. [B] (2) Beads. Lapis and carnelian lentoids and balls. | |
 | (none) | 30-12-381 | (none) | B18100 | (none) |
| 11532 | 30-12-383 | (none) | B18102 | Copper Pin. Plain spike head. [Type] I. | |
| (none) | 30-12-384 | (none) | B18103 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-385 | (none) | B18104 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-386 | (none) | B18105 | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-388 | (none) | B18107 | (none) | |
| 11710A | 30-12-390 | (none) | B18109 | Group. (A) Copper Pin with fluted head (broken) (B) A quantity of lapis double conoid beads.; (C) Cockle shells with green & blue paint. |
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