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) 30-12-391 (none) B18110 (none)
(none) 30-12-392 (none) B18111 (none)
(none) 30-12-394 (none) B18113 (none)
(none) 30-12-396 (none) B18115 (none)
(none) 30-12-397 (none) B18116 (none)
11600B 30-12-399A (none) B18118 [A-B] Cylinder Seal & Pin. White shell cylinder, geometric pattern. Found with the copper pin plain head. [drawing]
(none) 30-12-401.2 (none) B18120 (none)
(none) 30-12-401.3 (none) B18120 (none)
(none) 30-12-401.4 (none) B18120 (none)
(none) 30-12-401.5 (none) B18120 (none)
(none) 30-12-401.6 (none) B18120 (none)
(none) 30-12-401.7 (none) B18120 (none)
(none) 30-12-401.1 (none) B18120 (none)
(none) 30-12-402 (none) B18121 (none)
(none) 30-12-404 (none) B18123 (none)
(none) 30-12-405 (none) B18124 (none)
(none) 30-12-410 (none) B18129 (none)
(none) 30-12-418 (none) B18137 (none)
(none) 30-12-419 (none) B18138 (none)
(none) 30-12-420 (none) B18139 (none)
(none) 30-12-421 (none) B18140 (none)
(none) 30-12-422 (none) B18141 (none)
(none) 30-12-423 (none) B18142 (none)
(none) 30-12-424 (none) B18143 (none)
12723E 30-12-473 (none) B18193 Group of copper vessels and a copper pin. Found corroded together. [A] (1) Copper strainer [Type] (new 96). [B] (2) Oval bowl. Distorted [Type] LXIII (new 7). [C] (3) Hemispherical bowl [Type] III (new 4). [D] (4) Cylindrical vase: same as U.12711. Type XV (?LVII new 44). [E] Copper pin with carnelian double conoid head. Tip missing, straight type [Type] IV (New 3).

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