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) |
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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. | |
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] | |
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] | |
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. | |
6141 | (none) | (none) | B16415 | Bronze pin. E. [drawing] | |
6142 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. B. | |
6145 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. [drawing 1:2] | |
6403 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. B. [drawing 1:1] | |
6459 | (none) | (none) | B16414 | Bronze Pin. E. | |
6490 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. B. | |
6492 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pencil? B. | |
6493 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. Slightly curved below. B. | |
6494 | (none) | (none) | B16416 | Bronze pin. Spiral top. | |
6505 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. Hole through top. B. |
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