Metals from Unit K1

Laerke Recht – March 2025

Overview
Bronze pins

Overview

A small number of metal objects were found in K1. These consist of four bronze pins and one corroded piece of bronze:
K1.22
K1.27
K1.83
K1.999
K1.84

Bronze pins

The bronze pins are similar to others found at Tell Mozan, including as part of burials. They are of slightly different sizes, and each have an ‘eye’ a few cm from the flat or rounded head. K1.22 has a small bronze ring still in place in the ‘eye’. These objects were likely used as fasteners on garments, and provide a tantalising hint at textiles unfortunately not preserved. Such garment pins were also found in many of the ED III tombs in the southern Mesopotamian cemetery of Ur, made of copper/bronze, silver or gold (Gansell 2007). Here, they were part of ‘sets’ worn by the deceased, along with various other elements of jewellery and fine wear.