Description: Lathe turned, bone hair pin with bobbin shaped terminal, two faces or flattened areas exist on the central area of the terminal, dimple from lathe on top of terminal which is flared with a small collar below and below which is the rounded vase-shaped middle with another incised collar and second larger collar after which the pin begins and narrows to the bottom which is broken at the point. Part of the upper pin area is obscured by a collector label.
Collector's mark: on shaft of pin is a portion of a rectangular white paper label with a blue decorative surround and perforated edge identical to ECM 150, faint remains of a numbers and/or letters can be seen -- possibly 931, 937, or 237
Cultural Significance: While hair pins are known from the earliest periods of ancient Egyptian culture, the style of this hair pin conforms to those produced in the Roman Period. Some hair styles of this time featured large numbers of hairpins, often with simple bulbous tops and often made of bone.
Comparanda: UCL 40591, UCL 40613; Louvre AF6720, AF 6721, AF13813, AF13843, N3350 2, N3350 3; Bolton Museum AW167.9.

Notes:  Petrie, Objects of Daily Use, Hair Pins, 1927, p. 24, p. XIX. Fletcher, J. 2000. 'Hair', in P. Nicholson and I. Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 495-501. Fletcher, J. (2016) The Egyptian Hair Pin: practical, sacred, fatal, Internet Archaeology 42.
Note that the provenance might be EEF excavations between 1880 and first years of 1900, possibly Hawara