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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8067A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Copper pins with thickened heads and tangs. [type] I |
| 8067B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Copper pins with thickened heads and tangs. [type] I |
| 8079 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Square section. Shaft thickened at top and with tang. Broken and much corroded. [type] I |
| 8083A | (none) | (none) | B16837 | [A-B] Two beads Of glazed frit. Originally blue, now bleached. Large striated or ribbed beads, one spherical, the other with a sharp shoulder. | |
| 8086 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Circular section to shaft, hole near head: head pointed. [type] IV. [drawing] |
| 8092 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Round shaft thickening upwards and ending with a straight tang. [type] I. |
| 8121 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Copper. With ball head. Lapis lazuli ball plated with gold at top and bottom central strip plain lapis. [drawing] not to scale. [type V] |
| 8129 | (none) | (none) | B17482 | Pin Copper. Ribbed lapis ball bead head. Broken in 2 pieces. End missing. Head held fast by thin piece of copper passing through the ball bead and bent over the top. | |
| 8132 | (none) | 1928,1009.347 | (none) | Pin. Copper with glass ball head. Rectangular in section. [drawing] | |
| 8152 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with lapis ball head. [Type] V |
| 8158 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Round shaft thickening to head with long tang. |
| 8162 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver pin with fluted ball head of lapis. Capped with gold. There is a hole through the top end of the shaft and affixed against one end of the hole is a small carnelian ring bead. It looks as if a string had been passed through the hole with a head at the end of it to prevent its slipping out; in that case, the pin must have acted as a true toggle. [Type] V. |
| 8171 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with lapis ball head. The set of beads, U.8172, were found mostly fastened on to the pin by oxidation, laying all along the shaft from near the head: they might have been originally fastened to it if the shaft is pierced - but no hole is now visible. [Type] V. |
| 8226A | (none) | (none) | B16730 | [A] Silver pin with plain ball head of lapis capped with gold. The shaft is pierced just below the head: [B] the 7 beads found just by it may have been fixed to the pin by this hole. The beads are catalogued with the pin. See field notes. [Type] V |
| 8248 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with pierced shaft thickened at the top, where is a short tang. (broken) [type] I |
| 8262 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Copper. Top missing. Rectangular in section. Blackened bones originally adhering to it. [drawing] 1:2 [Type] I. |
| 8279 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Silver. Lapis lazuli ball head. Rounded in section. [drawing 1:2] [type] V |
| 8302 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened at the head end and tanged. I. |
| 8304 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver razor(?). The flat end of the blade is folded over - very doubtful whether it is a razor at all. [drawing] |
| 8317A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin [A]. Square section thickening to the head, pierced. Pointed, with a tang. With this go (probably) [B] 9 beads - one gold, 3 carnelian, and 4 lapis. [Type] V. |
| 8330A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two copper pins with circular shafts flattened and curled over to form the head. Both broken and incomplete. [drawing] [Type] VII. |
| 8337 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Shaft thickening to head and provided with a short tang. |
| 8343 | (none) | 1928,1009.345 | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli. Stem broken but complete. [Type] V | |
| 8344 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. The stem thickened towards the head and pierced at 30mm from the end: From the end protrudes a short tang. Round the stem at the hole there is a raised double band which may be in the metal but might be due to extra corrosion caused by a string or wire being twisted round it here. One lapis bead from the grave might be connected with the pin. [Type] V? |
| 8354 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with plain ball head of lapis lazuli. The stone cracked and in bad condition. Stem broken. [Type] V. |
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