Holdfasts and Staples

This category includes objects with two pointed ends that are bent.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
6968A	(none)	(none)	B16218	(A) Copper statuette the basket carrier. Dungi's time. Text: Dim-tab-ta Temple(2) [drawing] (B) Uninscribed diorite tablet. Dungi's time. Text: Dim-tab-ta Temple(2) [drawing]
(none)	(none)	1927,0527.110	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1927,0527.90	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1928,1010.144	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1933,1013.46	(none)	(none)
950	(none)	(none)	B15322, B15322	Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of KURIGALZU.
3241	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze staple. Ends broken off. [drawing 1:1]
9915B	(none)	1928,1010.345	(none)	Copper Bolt. [A-F] A set of 6 found together: 2 have solid flat heads and are bent 4 have coiled heads Type VII [drawings] 1:1
12109	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Cramp. Body of cramp shaped like a V with hoop shaped top and at right angles to it and welded onto it a second hoop. [drawing not to scale]
9574A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Hasps (?) [A-B] Found in the matting above the body and possibly used to fasten the ends of the mats together [drawing] 1:1 (NB the real metal is much thinner than is here drawn)
9574B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Hasps (?) [A-B] Found in the matting above the body and possibly used to fasten the ends of the mats together [drawing] 1:1 (NB the real metal is much thinner than is here drawn)
9534	(none)	(none)	B16915	Copper holdfast(?) (broken) [drawing ]1:1
9847B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Holdfasts (4) [A-D] Possibly fasteners for adjusting a belt. Found in connection with the copper holdfasts 9846, the latter being on the waist, these being on the shoulder. Possibly they belong to a leather baldrick. Horseshoe shaped head, rounded in section, legs rectangular in section. The legs may originally have been pliable so as to allow of the insertion of cord or such like material within the ring. [drawing 1:1]
9847C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Holdfasts (4) [A-D] Possibly fasteners for adjusting a belt. Found in connection with the copper holdfasts 9846, the latter being on the waist, these being on the shoulder. Possibly they belong to a leather baldrick. Horseshoe shaped head, rounded in section, legs rectangular in section. The legs may originally have been pliable so as to allow of the insertion of cord or such like material within the ring. [drawing 1:1]
9847D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Holdfasts (4) [A-D] Possibly fasteners for adjusting a belt. Found in connection with the copper holdfasts 9846, the latter being on the waist, these being on the shoulder. Possibly they belong to a leather baldrick. Horseshoe shaped head, rounded in section, legs rectangular in section. The legs may originally have been pliable so as to allow of the insertion of cord or such like material within the ring. [drawing 1:1]
8460	(none)	1928,1009.335	(none)	Copper staple Shaped like a crotchy [croquet] hoop with end of legs slightly turned up.
3303	(none)	1927,1003.99	(none)	Copper staple or rivet. With eye at top; use doubtless similar to that of a ring bolt. [drawing 1:1]
3344	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper staple. Somewhat blistered but strong. [drawing 1:1]
3140	(none)	1927,1003.100	(none)	Copper staple. With eye presumably for suspension [drawing 1:1]
6657B	(none)	(none)	B16434	Copper? Handles? Arched. Rounded tops and nail head bases. E. Philadelphia? [drawing 1:2]
6657A	(none)	1927,0527.116	(none)	Copper? Handles? Arched. Rounded tops and nail head bases. E. [drawing 1:2]
6639C	(none)	1927,0527.77	(none)	Group of silver staves with wooden core inside A-Y.
6639D	(none)	1927,0527.78	(none)	Group of silver staves with wooden core inside A-Y.
6639F	(none)	1927,0527.79	(none)	Group of silver staves with wooden core inside A-Y.
12707L	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Stone vase, white calcite. For type see field ntoes. [Type] LXXVI. [B] (2) Stone bowl, white calcite. Broken badly. Type XIX. [C] (3) Copper lamp normal type cut as a shell. L. 140mm. L. of spout 100mm with ring at end for suspension. [D] (4) Beads. Carnelian rings probably a bracelet with thin silver wire bracelets elliptical, broken and decayed. [E] (5) Silver wire finger ring. [F] (6) Frontlet of beads. 1 lapis bugle and 2 carnelian bugles [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Shell. Much decayed. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli originally suspended on a silver wire. Subject. [I] (9) Copper strainer. Corroded with it. Normal type. [J] (10) A copper tumbler. Straight sided [Type] LVII. [K] (11) Copper axe type XXI. [L] (12) Copper holdfasts. Croquet hook type. [drawing] [M] (13) Copper pin. Type V B. Lapis ball head corroded with: [N] 14) Copper dagger type II B.