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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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. | |
| 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. |
| 1584C | (none) | 1924,0920.231 | (none) | (none) |
| 1627 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. With round head; square in section; pierced just below head. Point broken off. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1645 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory pin. With six grooves at head; pierced just below head. [drawing 2:5] |
| 1650 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin, pierced below head. Point broken off. [drawing] |
| 1704 | (none) | 1924,0920.236 | (none) | Bronze stilus. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 2573 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. White stone. Point missing. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2644 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2852 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. Waisted head: in good condition. |
| 3174 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze safety pin. Frame only. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3177 | (none) | 1927,1003.98 | (none) | Fragmentary razor blade. Bronze. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 3178 | (none) | 1927,1003.83 | (none) | Polished malachite (?) fragment, transfixed with bronze pin, turned into an eye at one end. [drawing 9:10] |
| 3223 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frame of bronze safety pin [drawing 1:1] |
| 3243 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze dress pin. Long and thin with sharp point and slightly flattened head. Present length (highly bent): 156mm. Diameter: 4mm. |
| 6009 | (none) | (none) | B16359 | Pin. Bone. Square in section with knob head. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6012 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin holder? Metal bronze. Triangular. Rounded at top and base. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6060 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster [seems to be corrected as white calcite] pin. Chipped. |
| 6061 | (none) | (none) | B16357 | Alabaster pin. E. |
| 6107 | (none) | 1927,0527.105 | (none) | Bronze bodkin. Broken in two pieces. E. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 6141 | (none) | (none) | B16415 | Bronze pin. E. [drawing] | |
| 6142 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. B. |
| 6145 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. [drawing 1:2] |
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