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)
8657	(none)	1928,1009.79	(none)	Beads. Lentoids, 1 gold, 2 carnelian, 2 lapis and 10 small lapis balls, strung as a bracelet with 2 small beads between each pair of larger ones.
8661	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell Cut as ladle With bird's head above, the eye inlaid with lapis Decayed and in poor condition
8666	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli: with gold caps. Subject: Gilgamesh and lion, hero and antelope.
8667	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis, carnelian, 1 chalcedony, 1 silver disk bead (broken) and two or three gold plated beads in bad condition. See field notes.
8669	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 2 large carnelian, 2 ditto lapis, and some copper beads. See field notes.
8670	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Crystal, gold plated, lapis and carnelian, and one agate with gold caps. See field notes.
8680	(none)	1928,1009.153	(none)	Gold pin The shaft of gold, the head a large ribbed lapis ball capped with gold
8681	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Lapis 2 registers, above [reference to drawing] Below, [reference to drawing] One end chipped.
8686	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. A mixed lot of lapis, carnelian, steatite, sard, etc. from a single string.
8687	(none)	(none)	B16961	Beads. Large lentoids. 2 lapis, 1 gold, 1 carnelian, and a broken carnelian lentoid: with these small carnelian rings strung between the large.
8689B	(none)	(none)	B16956	Beads. Lapis lazuli. Double conoids. Strung with the gold beads U.8689A.
8693	(none)	(none)	B16798	Diadem. Composed of two pieces of gold (imitation chain) and 3 beads, large lentoids, 2 of lapis, 1 of gold. See field notes. The gold 'chains' are made of 4 strings of twisted 2-ply gold wire soldered together: one has come unsoldered at the end. The beads must have come in the middle of the forehead and a string must have connected the gold pieces behind the head.
8702	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace 62 lapis lazuli beads 7 silver beads corroded together in 2 lots of 4 and 3 respectively
8704	(none)	1928,1009.61	(none)	Necklace Consisting of 111 lapis lazuli beads - double conoids 26 gold double conoids Apparently the gold beads were in the centre of the necklace, gold and lapis being alternated.
8707	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace 236 lapis lazuli beads - mostly ball beads 1 ribbed gold ball bead
8716	(none)	(none)	B17031	12 lapis lazuli beads Double conoids, ring beads, and one thus [drawing] and 1 discoid bead
8723	(none)	(none)	(none)	5 beads. 1 silver lentoid. 2 facetted double conoid lapis. 1 double conoid baked clay. 1 bugle bead baked clay.
8728	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 27 lapis lazuli beads. Double conoids and barrel.
8735A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 lapis beads. Double conoid. Facetted. [Apparently unrelated notes on back, U. numbers associated with PG.286]
8738	(none)	(none)	B16849	Conical bead. Lapis lazuli. Perforated vertically and horizontally in 4 places. 3 triangles engraved upon it - in each triangle 3 lines parallel to the base. [drawing]
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]
8753	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis and silver.
8760	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pin. Rounded in section. Lapis? ball head with gold ring round middle. [Type] V
8761	(none)	1928,1009.91	(none)	Necklace. 12 burnt lentoids, Lapis beads. 6 burnt double conoid lapis. 7 ribbed lapis ball beads. 7 double conoid carnelians. 1 carnelian shaped thus: [drawing]. The rest small carnelian and lapis ring ball and barrel beads - 25. Grand total 58. The lapis lentoids and carnelian double conoids were strung alternately in the middle of the necklace - at the back of the neck all the small lapis beads were strung together.
8766	(none)	(none)	B17384	Copper pin. With ribbed lapis ball head discolored by heat. Rounded in section. Only the middle portion of the lapis ball head was showing. The upper and lower portions originally had a silver cap. Only a fragment of this remains. Pin is perforated below head. [drawing]