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) 1927,1003.84 (none) (none)
3178 (none) 1927,1003.83 (none) Polished malachite (?) fragment, transfixed with bronze pin, turned into an eye at one end. [drawing 9:10]
6777B (none) 1927,0527.70 (none) NOB. Steatite and gold rosette. Fragmentary. Burnt. [drawing 1:1]
6778B (none) 1927,0527.69 (none) Scarab setting of gold and gold studs. E.
6776A (none) 1927,0527.68 B16299 Gold nob. E.
6509 (none) 1927,0527.108 (none) Pin bronze. E.
6619 (none) 1927,0527.107 (none) Pin bronze. Hole in top. E. [drawing]
6491 (none) 1927,0527.106 (none) Bronze pin. Hole pierced in top. E.
6107 (none) 1927,0527.105 (none) Bronze bodkin. Broken in two pieces. E. [drawing 1:1]
6151 (none) 1927,0527.104 (none) Copper pin. Bead head of lapis lazuli. E. [drawing]
(none) (none) 1927,0527.103 (none) (none)
6530 (none) 1927,0527.102 (none) Nail. Bronze. Broken near top. E.
6190 (none) 1927,0527.101 (none) Copper? Pin. Scale 1:2. E. [drawing 1:2]
1400 (none) 1924,0920.409 (none) Bronze ring. Small. [drawing 1:1]
1402 (none) 1924,0920.408 (none) Pin head(?) Lapis lazuli and gold, much incrusted with salt, etc.
1704 (none) 1924,0920.236 (none) Bronze stilus. [drawing 1:1]
1584C (none) 1924,0920.231 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5349 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5123 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5118 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5117 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5056 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5054 (none) (none)
95 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. rectangular section. Broken into 3 pieces. [drawing 1:1]
456 (none) (none) B15241 Gold Figure and Pin. Figurine H. 0062., of thin gold on a core which has perished: female figure with hands clasped below breasts. Hair in vertical curls over forehead and coming down on shoulders in a heavy mass waved horizontally: features heavy showing Sumerian tradition. Edges of drapery not indicated. Below the waist the body is simply columnar with a raised rim edge where the feet should be. This was apparently mounted on a gold-plated wooden stick, 0.123 long., tapering downwards (c.f. Ephesus ivories). The metal and part of the wood remain.

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