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)
10442	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mosaic in shell and lapis Part of the decoration of the big box, occupying the middle of the near side. The background is of lapis, the figures shell. All had fallen from their position and in all cases the face of the shell was so decayed that little of the design remains. Most of the design was figures, but there were also bits of purely decorative design. One part of each was sufficiently in situ to be waxed: the rest picked out in fragments.
16960	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone statue of a seated goddess. She wears a long flounced garment reaching to the feet; hands clasped below breasts. The hair is confined by a plain heavy bandeau and falls in a square mass behind the back with a lock over each shoulder. The eyes are inlaid with shell and lapis, and the eyebrows with lapis. Very coarse ugly work.
18671	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone bowl. [Type] 12. [drawing]
18429	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone bowl. [drawing]
18657	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone bowl. The base broken in antiquity and mended with bitumen. Sides slightl convex.
18952	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone bowl. Type 16b.
3302	(none)	(none)	(none)	Large bead. Fine quality lapis lazuli. Flat. Sketch 1:1. [drawing 1:1]
8004	(none)	1928,1009.84	(none)	Large ball bead of lapis with gold caps. Sphere with ribbed sides.
16801	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapsi lazuli cylinder seal. ^d.En-ki, ^d.Dam-gal-nun-na.
139	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli. Fr of inlay. Apparently hair. [drawing 1:1]
494	(none)	1923,1110.196	(none)	Lapis lazuli seal. Scaraboid. Subject [drawing]
1146	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli seal. Human figurre incised. [drawing]
493	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli seal, pointed topped, like U 486. Subject, a fish. [drawing]
16006	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli cylinder seal. Adad-rabi, son of Rim-adad. HC.30/I.2 UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain)
2918	(none)	1927,1003.253	(none)	Lapis lazuli bull. Couchant with head turned. Pierced in three places for suspension.
8008	(none)	(none)	B16815	Lapis lazuli beads. A great number, all small, some minute. With lapis spacers for 3 parallel strings.
6823	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli bead. Mussel shaped. E. [drawing 1:1]
12255	(none)	1929,1017.401	(none)	Lapis Lazuli Bead. Large facetted lentoid; part of a frontlet.
9837B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis Lazuli ball bead and part of stem of copper pin. Rest not found. Type V. [drawing] approx 1:1
10842	(none)	(none)	B17102	Lapis lazuli big lumps, in the rough
10952	(none)	(none)	B16713	Lapis handle (?) Octagonal in section with through it a hole increasing in size to an oval 20mm, long. [drawing]
10564	(none)	(none)	B16760	Lapis Beads Double Conoids
10563	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis beads 2 large facetted lentoids & a number of small double conoids and striated balls.
12316	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lamp. Cut out of a large shell. Head of bird engraved upon it and in the head an inlaid eye of Lapis Lazuli.
8244	(none)	1928,1009.526	(none)	Inscribed Ostrich Egg. Ostrich Egg all broken, it had been excavated with mother of pearl, lapis, and lumanae or red-paste for order etc. see field notes.