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) | 1928,1009.352 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.351 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1010.120 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.76 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.73 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.75 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.72 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.74 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.71 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.77 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1932,1008.25 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1919,1011.5118 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1919,1011.5117 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 32-40-210 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 98-9-140 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 98-9-69 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 98-9-70 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| 12112C | 30-12-373 | (none) | B18092 | 2 Cylinder seals & copper pin. (A) Steatite greenish: 2 registers; above, deer on mountains; below, men fighting animals. Poor cutting. (B) Shell, decayed. Figures & animals. Hopeless no photograph (C) Copper pin plain. | |
| 6061 | (none) | (none) | B16357 | Alabaster pin. E. |
| 6060 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster [seems to be corrected as white calcite] pin. Chipped. |
| 9338 | (none) | 1928,1009.243 | (none) | Arrowheads(?) Plain spikes, hollow socketted [struck out: (VII)?] [struck out: type 5c] [type] 3 (new) | |
| 9589 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone Pin Broken in many places Rounded in section Criss-cross decoration incised on stem. [drawing] |
| 10702 | (none) | 1935,0113.439 | (none) | Bone Pin Rounded in section Perforated top Broken and tip missing [drawing] E |
| 14484 | (none) | 1930,1213.532 | (none) | Bone pin with decorated head (point broken). [drawing 1:1] |
| 16395 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone pin(?) Pointed top. Stem rectangular in section decorated on all four faces with incised concentric circles. [drawing 1:1] |
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