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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.73 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.74 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.75 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.76 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.77 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.479 | (none) | (none) |
| 14290 | (none) | 1930,1213.489 | (none) | Copper chisel. Minute. Sq. in section. Type VII R. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 14484 | (none) | 1930,1213.532 | (none) | Bone pin with decorated head (point broken). [drawing 1:1] |
| 17119 | (none) | 1931,1010.149 | (none) | Pin of black chert (?) [drawing 1:1] |
| 16286H | (none) | 1931,1010.235 | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
| 16286I | (none) | 1931,1010.235 | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
| 17431 | (none) | 1931,1010.262 | (none) | Pin head [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16364 | (none) | 1931,1010.277 | (none) | Bronze Pin. With hooked top. Broken in 2 places. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17027 | (none) | 1931,1010.280 | (none) | Hair (?) pin. Copper. Plain type, circular in section. [drawing 1:2] | |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.306 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1932,1008.25 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1933,1013.49 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1933,1013.51 | (none) | (none) |
| 16809 | (none) | 1933,1013.52 | (none) | Shell cylinder seal (not pierced). ^dAdad-ba(?)-ni(?) ,dumu Nu-ur- ^dAdad... | |
| (none) | (none) | 1933,1013.54 | (none) | (none) |
| 19190 | (none) | 1935,0112.27 | (none) | Copper pin. Type 6. [drawing] head thus. | |
| (none) | (none) | 1935,0112.28 | (none) | (none) |
| 11467A | (none) | 1935,0113.401 | (none) | Copper objects. (A) a copper pin, bent in half. (B) [B-D] 3 finger rings of plain copper wire. | |
| 10702 | (none) | 1935,0113.439 | (none) | Bone Pin Rounded in section Perforated top Broken and tip missing [drawing] E |
| 15412 | (none) | 1935,0113.450 | (none) | Copper pin. Straight type. Lapis lazuli ball head with gold cap. Type but slender through out. |
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