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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8680 | (none) | 1928,1009.153 | (none) | Gold pin The shaft of gold, the head a large ribbed lapis ball capped with gold |
| 8720 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin Copper Rounded in section. Rounded head. Broken in 3 pieces. [Type] IX |
| 8729 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone, brown. Rounded in section. Engraved oblique parallel lines running down pin. Lines filled in with white paint. Fragment. [drawing] |
| 8730 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Toggle pin. Copper. Rectangular in section. [drawing] [Type] I |
| 8736A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 pins. Copper. Both rounded in section. One has a ribbed lapis ring bead found corroded against the head of the second pin. Top of (A) missing. (B) complete but broken in 3 pieces. Type 1 (new) [drawing] |
| 8736B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 pins. Copper. Both rounded in section. One has a ribbed lapis ring bead found corroded against the head of the second pin. Top of (A) missing. (B) complete but broken in 3 pieces. Type 1 (new) [drawing] |
| 8737 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin Copper [drawing] [type] I |
| 8742 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Ribbed silver ball head. Rounded in section - broken in 4 pieces. [drawing] [type] V |
| 8746A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper pins. Rounded in section. Eye perforated through top end like a needle. Both complete, one broken in 2 pieces. |
| 8746B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper pins. Rounded in section. Eye perforated through top end like a needle. Both complete, one broken in 2 pieces. |
| 8750 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded end thick in section. [drawing] [type] I |
| 8756 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. In 3 pieces. Rounded in section. [drawing] |
| 8760 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section. Lapis? ball head with gold ring round middle. [Type] V |
| 8766 | (none) | (none) | B17384 | Copper pin. With ribbed lapis ball head discolored by heat. Rounded in section. Only the middle portion of the lapis ball head was showing. The upper and lower portions originally had a silver cap. Only a fragment of this remains. Pin is perforated below head. [drawing] |
| 8779 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Copper. Rounded in section. Broken in 3 pieces. [drawing] [type] IX |
| 8788 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Ball head of copper. Tip missing. |
| 8795 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section [Type] IX |
| 8844B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper chopper and copper pin corroded onto it. Chopper has flat blade and turned over tang. [drawing] |
| 8894 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Slender thickening to head and with short tang. [Type] I |
| 8923 | (none) | 1928,1009.343 | (none) | Copper pin. With head of lapis ball capped with silver. (tip broken: all in very bad condition) [type] V | |
| 8955 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Plain, thickening to head and with a short projecting tang. (broken into 3). [Type] I |
| 8956 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Thickening to head and from this projects a tang which may be decorative but is too corroded for shape to be clear. [Type] I |
| 8972 | (none) | 1928,1009.246 | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened to head, short tang. Oxidized on to it is a copper plate 0023x 0022(broken). [Type I] | |
| 8976 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened to head with short tang. [Type] I |
| 8990 | (none) | 1928,1009.238 | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened to head and with short tang (tip broken) [Type] I |
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