Lapis Lazuli

Lapis is a deep blue stone that is mottled with white calcite and brassy pyrite. It has a mohs scale of 5-5.5 and has a dull luster.

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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)
8162	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver pin with fluted ball head of lapis. Capped with gold. There is a hole through the top end of the shaft and affixed against one end of the hole is a small carnelian ring bead. It looks as if a string had been passed through the hole with a head at the end of it to prevent its slipping out; in that case, the pin must have acted as a true toggle. [Type] V.
9962	(none)	(none)	B17075	Silver Pin The shaft bent, & pierced Lapis ball head Type VI
10352	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Pin Lapis ball head with silver cap under side Type V
8374	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver pendant. In bad condition. It was suspended on the quadrupal band of silver and lapis beads described on field notes (No. 14). Made of twisted filigree wire wound up into spiral whorls standing in high relief. [drawing] 1:1 (sketch)
11155	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Ostrich Shell. Originally decorated on base and round the rim with incrustation in shell, lapis, and red stone. All ornament gone: the Shell much distorted and broken.
14470A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver comb. With 5 prongs each decorated with a lapis lazuli ball bead.
8306B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver chain [A]. Fragments of. Made with the same sort of crochet link as the gold chain U.8002, giving a square section: but this is thicker and heavier. In 6 fragments. It was almost certainly linked up (like U.8002) with a few beads [B] found with it - 3 large conoids, 2 lapis, 1 silver, and 3 carnelian rings and 1 sard bugle, strung alternately. These are cataloged with the chain.
8538	(none)	1928,1009.406	(none)	Shell. Cut to form an open spouted bowl or ladle. Above the opening is a crude carving of a bird's head, the eye inlaid with lapis lazuli.
8191	(none)	(none)	B17194	Shell. Cut as a ladle: a piece is left across the opening and this is carved into a bird's head, the eye inlaid with lapis. [drawing]
8996	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell roundel. Convex above with incised 8 point star, the petals inlaid with lapis and red paste, 3 red and 5 blue of which one is missing. [drawing]
8661	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell Cut as ladle With bird's head above, the eye inlaid with lapis Decayed and in poor condition
10153	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal Lapis lazuli Lentoid shaped 3 registers Men and gazelles
16176	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli. Palm tree.
15191	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli paste. Vulture; Asiatic sphinx; Neb sign.
8632	(none)	(none)	(none)	Roundels. 7 black and 7 white The black inlaid with 5 white shell spots The white inlaid with 5 lapis spots Found lying in a row, arranged in alternate colors [drawing]
11824	30-12-440	(none)	(none)	Remains of Scepter (?) Shell knob inlaid with gold & color, wooden staff also decorated with very thin gold leaf & minute mosaic in lapis & red. Very bad condition.
10590	(none)	(none)	(none)	Reins of second bullock waggon Consisting of very large lentoid beads in silver over bitumen and some smaller facetted lentoids of lapis lazuli
10550	(none)	1928,1010.96	(none)	Reins From the first wagon Made of silver beads averaging 010, long, and large facetted lentoids of lapis
11737	(none)	1929,1017.560	(none)	Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. Type V.
11738	(none)	1929,1017.561	(none)	Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V.
8279	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pin. Silver. Lapis lazuli ball head. Rounded in section. [drawing 1:2] [type] V
1402	(none)	1924,0920.408	(none)	Pin head(?) Lapis lazuli and gold, much incrusted with salt, etc.
6797	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pendant. Silver. Set with Lapiz lazuli. E.
6800	(none)	(none)	B16370	Pendant. Silver. Embossed. Round and convex. 3 holes pierced in top covered with lapis and silver beads and two silver filigree
8117	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pendant. Lapis lazuli. Double conoid in section. Broader at one end than at the other. [drawing 1:1]