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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16371 | 31-43-127 | (none) | (none) | Pins(?). Ivory. 10 in all. Tips mostly missing. [drawing] |
| 10010 | 31-18-8 | (none) | (none) | Gold Monkey Miniature, on a copper stick (probably a decorative pin), the stick broken [drawing] | |
| 12778F | 31-17-352T | (none) | (none) | Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design]. | |
| (none) | 31-17-274 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| 12696A | 31-17-269 | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper pin with curled head [Type] VII. [drawing] [B] (2) Silver wire earrings 2 1/2 coils. [C] (3) Silver and lapis lentoid beads strung in alternate pairs [D] (4) Alabaster miniature spill vase [Type] CII [D]. [drawing] | |
| 14460A | 31-17-268 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. | |
| 14061 | 31-17-266 | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Bent. type. Type VI, A. | |
| 14081B | 31-17-254 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 manicure implements. [A] Copper tweezers & [B] kohl(?) stick. Bound at top with copper wire. | |
| 12699A | 31-17-253 | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] Copper pin. Straight. Unusual type. Short square tang unusually thick at top in proportion to its length. Perforated near top and waisted near perforation thus [reference to drawing]. Square in section at top, rounded below. [B] (2) Beads 5 in all. Lapis ball. Bright blue paste barrel. 2 minute silver barrels, 1 broken carnelian barrel. [drawing] | |
| (none) | 31-17-252 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| 14018 | 31-17-251 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin, Lapis ball head. Striaght type. Broken in 2 pieces. Type V.A. | |
| 14311 | 31-17-250 | (none) | (none) | Copper spindle whorl. Tip missing. Type IV, B. [Notes and drawings on back of card] | |
| (none) | 31-17-247R | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247P | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247O | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247N | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247L | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-17-247K | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-17-247J | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247I | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247H | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-17-247G | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247C | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-247A | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 14245A | 31-17-245 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper pins. With rolled heads. 1 has tip missing. Type VII. |
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