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.
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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Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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![]() | 9751 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis. 2 registers. Wild goats walking amongst shrubs. |
![]() | 9752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Balls of gold-plating over copper, rock crystal rings, 1 lapis lentoid with gold caps, originally bound with a spiral or silver wire, 1 carnelian lentoid (see Field Notes) |
![]() | 9753 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Small lapis & gold For order see Field Notes. |
![]() | 9754 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. From a string of small lapis beads alternating with silver, the silver mostly perished, many of the lapis are mixed up with 9753. |
![]() | 9756 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin With striated ball lapis head, very thick & heavy type Type V. |
![]() | 9764 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Lapis with gold caps 2 heroes fighting bulls, 2 beasts fighting and an inscription. en-ki-en-du/ dub-sar; Enki-en-du, Scribe (cf. 9765) (HC. 208) |
![]() | 9777B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Spindles a pair Silver spindles with lapis whorls both very slender (broken into 4 pieces and whorl also separate.) |
![]() | 9778 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Finger Ring Gold Cloisonne work set with lapis; bent and partly broken, and some of the inlay missing [drawing] |
![]() | 9779 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Bead Double conoid Decorated with applied filligree work and circular cloisons once filled in with lapis (now all missing: a fragment of lapis remained in one cloison when the object was found) [drawing] |
![]() | 9782 | (none) | 1928,1010.181 | (none) | Beads Two large lapis lentoids One gold lentoid 1 lapis bugle |
![]() | 9800A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. (A) Consisting of 2 strings of beads. Upper string: 2 small lapis double conoids and 2 silver diamonds strung alternately; silver beads decayed. (B) Lower string: 2 carnelian double conoids, 1 glazed lentoid strung alternatively; glazed beads mostly perished. |
![]() | 9805 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 2 gold; 1 small ring bead, 1 double conoid 5 carnelian; double conoids 9 lapis beads: tubes and double conoids 1 agate lentoid |
![]() | 9809 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Lapis Lazuli Hero between 2 rampant gazelles. Beyond is a rampant lion crossed with a bearded bull rampant; and beyond this again, above a small rampant gazelle, and below an even smaller gazelle next to a plant. |
![]() | 9812A | (none) | 1928,1010.176 | (none) | Necklace. 2 strings of beads. (A) Upper string: smaller beads - gold, carnelian and a few lapis. For order cf. Field Notes. (B) Lower string: larger beads - jasper, banded sard, mottled stone, agate. |
![]() | 9813 | (none) | 1928,1010.268 | (none) | Cylinder Seal Lapis Lazuli 2 bearded heroes, back to back, accosting a bearded lion and a bearded bull respectively A third hero attacks a second rampant lion Faultily bored |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 9828 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Gold and lapis ball head Hole perforated 003 from the top of stem, and copper rings passed through it. Upper and lower caps on ball head are of gold. lapis shows only in the middle [drawing] Type V |
![]() | 9834 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bugle Bead Lapis lazuli Decorated with a series of V-shaped incisions two registers [drawing] |
![]() | 9837B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lapis Lazuli ball bead and part of stem of copper pin. Rest not found. Type V. [drawing] approx 1:1 |
![]() | 9838 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 19 lapis lazuli double conoids. Apparently worn round wrist. Type V. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 9889 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 Beads Two carnelian ring beads, 1 lapis lentoid |
9919 | (none) | 1928,1010.356 | (none) | Copper Pin Bent shaft, lapis ball head Type VI | |
![]() | 9921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Silver balls and lapis double conoids. (from the neck) |
![]() | 9935B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Silver earring with lunate ends. (B) Fragments of a silver charm: 1 - gold lentoid bead; 1 lapis ditto; 1 carnelian ring bead. |
![]() | 9954 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Small lapis, carnelian and paste rings Originally strung in sets of 3 |
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