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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7551 | (none) | (none) | B16771 | Pin. Bone. Yellow. Point missing. Incised decoration at head. Hole perforated below decoration. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7578 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Brown. Perforated below top. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Yellowish. Cock's head? [drawing 1:1] |
| 7863 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli and gold shaft has round section. Head thus: [drawing] |
| 7864 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of white shell (?) set in silver as in U.7863, the metal is a cap of thin foilover the ball. Broken, and the head in bad condition. |
| 7880 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Mushroom-shaped head, round shaft, pointed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7882 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin or borer. Much corroded (also broken), apparently shaped thus with slight knob and then a thicker stem gradually thinned to a point. [drawing] |
| 7889 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Blunt rounded head. |
| 7969 | (none) | 1928,1009.252 | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened to one end, with a short tang projecting from the thick end: circular section. [type] I |
| 7970 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Similar in type to U.7969. Broken across middle. [type] I |
| 7971 | (none) | 1928,1009.344 | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli and gold. The shaft of the pin has swollen and split and only a stump is left with the head on it, - the latter also broken by the swelling of the metal, and part missing. [type] V |
| 7978 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With lapis ball head. Point broken [type] V |
| 7979 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with lapis ball head [type] V |
| 7991 | (none) | (none) | B17424 | Copper pin with head [drawing] tanged thus [type] I | |
| 8007B | (none) | (none) | B17462 | Silver plaque in two parts. [A] A circular plaque diam 009, part of the edge broken away; in center, raised electrum boss surrounded by six silver bosses; round them a border of two double raised concentric bands with fine radial lines between; folded over this and sticking to it when found was a second piece of silver with copper backing apparently broken off from where the edge of the circle is missing; the shape of the whole object would look like an elaborate buckle thus [drawing]. [B] A copper pin 0075 long was corroded on the back [C] (as were many beads) but need not belong to it. The three are cataloged under the same number. | |
| 8014 | (none) | 1928,1009.189 | (none) | Copper pin. The head in the shape of a human hand with the thumb raised. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8015 | (none) | 1928,1009.346 | (none) | Copper pin. Plain, with small ball head. [type] V. | |
| 8016 | (none) | B16765 | (none) | Copper pin. WIth ball head of carnelian and gold. Shaft broken and much of it missing. [type] V | |
| 8026 | (none) | (none) | B17461 | Copper pin. Point missing. The shaft widens above and is pierced by a small hole; then it thins down and bends over and ends in a large ball head (the material perhaps a paste) originally capped with silver which has now almost all gone. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8027 | (none) | (none) | B17467 | Copper pin. With ball head and lapis capped with silver. The shaft much decayed and broken into 5 pieces. | |
| 8042 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with tanged head The shaft, almost rectangular in section, thickens towards the top and is pierced with a small hole. |
| 8042A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [DUPLICATE NUMBER] Copper pin with tanged head. Broken into 4 pieces. I. |
| 8043 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with lapis ball head. Broken into 5 pieces [Type] V |
| 8060 | (none) | (none) | B17430 | Copper needle. Point broken. | |
| 8061 | (none) | (none) | B17423 | Copper pin. With lapis ball head capped with silver. [Type] V. |
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