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.

Objects: Lapis Lazuli Export: JSON - XML - CSV

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
11769	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Gold & lapis triangular beads.
12341	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Gold & lapis ball beads. For order see Field Note.
7099	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Containing cylinder seal of carnelian. Inscribed. Cylinder seal; lapis lazuli plain. 65 carnelian beads. On carnelian cylinder seal. Worship of a standing god by votary led by the hand. Standing god holds club? Introducing goddess may be Dim-tab-ba. Inscribed: Dim-tab-ba. Cf. U.7097, U.7098 and U.7100-U.7106.
51	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Consisting of agate lunar pendant, 13 gold beads (some decayed), 12 carnelian and 18 lapis beads (including one barrel 0.047 long) = from this beads through the center 13 are restrung in the original order. and 7 gold beads unstrung.
11215	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Consisting of 2 strings of beads. 110 carnelian double conoids, 1 rectangular shaped agate bead convex on either side, elliptical in section. 50 carnelian ring and discoid beads. 68 lapis lazuli beads. 47 gold beads (tubular pieces of gold foil)
8116	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian, lapis, & gold beads. 47 double conoid gold beads. 12 ribbed ball gold beads. 184 double conoid lapis lazuli. 14 lentoid carnelians. 1 double conoid agate bead. Strung apparently in the following order: 4 or 5? lapis. 4 or 5? gold. 4 or 5? lapis. 1 carnelian. 4 or 5 lapis. 4 or 5 gold. 1 carnelian. etc. In the middle the large double conoid agate bead. 1 gold ball bead with 4 or 3? gold conoid.
16375	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian, lapis lazuli, quartz, sard, mottled stone, variegated glass(?), rings, barrels, flattened double conoids. for order of stringing see Field Note.
17037	31-43-144	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian, discois, lentoids, double conoids, amethyst, facetted tetragonal, lozance shaped in facetted lentoids. Lapis Lazuli double conoid. Agate beads like: [reference to drawing]. Quartz lentoids. [drawing]
7572	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian, blue crystal, yellow and one lapis lazuli bead. 34 in all. Lentoids, ring beads, bugle beads and double conoids. Restrung in original order. Found with Phonecian black and blue glass bottle U7660 and with clay pot Type XXIX
17040	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian scaraboids, double conoids, rings. Lapis lazuli scaraboids. Glass paste ball beads. 1 greenish glass paste scaraboid with quasi heiroglyphic signs? A second marked thus [drawing]
12307	(none)	1930,1213.542	(none)	Necklace. Beads consisting of Lapis & silver balls.
6613A	(none)	(none)	B16389	Necklace. Arbitrarily re-strung. 51 mixed beads. E.
6614B	(none)	(none)	B16391	Necklace. Arbitrarily re-strung. 51 mixed beads. E.
17051	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Amethyst [represented in drawing] four sided, lozange shaped in section carnelian. Double conoids and lentoids and diamonds. Silver ball beads. Glass paste rings, balls, discoids, barrels. Agate. Squares. Lapis lazuli flat lentoid with dragon (?) engraved amethyst scaraboid with fish (?) engraved. [drawing]
8794	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. About 18 gold beads, 18 lapis - ball beads, ring beads and a few double conoids. Gold and lapis strung alternately, ball beads between the double conoids.
8775	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 83 roughly shaped lapis ball beads. These formed a double string round the neck. Big beads and small beads evenly sized off. Each string symmetrical with the other.
7642	(none)	1928,1009.94	(none)	Necklace. 64 beads. Arbitrarily re-strung. Carnelian, amethyst and lapis lazuli. Carnelian, double conoid, bugle beads and ring beads: Amethyst: double conoid. Lapis: ring beads.
9253	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 60-70 lapis lazuli beads - double conoids.
7945	(none)	(none)	B16808	Necklace. 6 lapis lazuli double conoids [drawing] (not to scale). 4 lapis double conoids -smaller type [drawing]. 6 carnelian double conoids. 2 carnelian ring beads.
12187B	30-12-570	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 4 strings. (A) Lapis & gold balls, also flattened lapis conoids & bleached carnelian bugles. (B) Lapis lentoids, gold balls and gold & lapis flies. (C) Like A. (D) Gold & lapis bugles, also gold fluted balls. [drawing]
12187C	(none)	1929,1017.244	(none)	Necklace. 4 strings. (A) Lapis & gold balls, also flattened lapis conoids & bleached carnelian bugles. (B) Lapis lentoids, gold balls and gold & lapis flies. (C) Like A. (D) Gold & lapis bugles, also gold fluted balls. [drawing]
16319	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 37 beads. Agate lentoids, carnelian balls, glazed frit double conoids, 1 lapis lazuli double conoid, 1 rectangular calcite bead, carnelian barrels, 1 gold double conoid with ridged ends.
8748	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 30 beads. Original order. Silver and lapis alternating with an unusual[?] carnelian. Ball beads lentoids and double conoids. In the middle of the string a carnelian bugle bead and on either side of it a silver ball bead. Against one of the ball beads the cylinder seal U.8747. The cylinder seal and the long carnelian bead thus formed the centre pieces of the necklace. In the necklace a carnelian barrel bead worked with engraved white lines thus - [drawing]
9825	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 3 strings of beads. For order see Field Notes. Gold ball, bugle, diamond beads; lapis bugle and ball beads; crystal ring beads and diamond beads; agate flattened double conoid with gold caps; carnelian diamond beads.
8728	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 27 lapis lazuli beads. Double conoids and barrel.