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)
17311	(none)	1931,1010.37	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Fragment. Two registers. Above. Palm on a high vase, one one side seated figure saluting, on the other a standing figure saluting. Below. Geese (?)
17021.2	(none)	1931,1010.261	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads. About 130 in all. Carnelian, lentoids, balls, rings, double conoids, discoids. Lapis lazuli double conoids, rings and discoid. Glass paste balls, and a few worked discoids.
16685	(none)	1931,1010.256	(none)	Beads. Carnelian: balls and rings and double conoids. Amethyst: double conoids. Lapis lazuli: balls and rings. Agate: lentoids, barrels. Glass paste: lentoids, balls, rings.
16710A	(none)	1931,1010.255	(none)	Beads: 401 in all. Jasper, quartz, lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, cats eye, breccia, granite, amethyst, copper, and various mottled stones, reddish brown, grey, etc. 1 gold double conoid; order not know. Mostly lentoids. Also barrels, rings, double conoids, balls.
16324	(none)	1931,1010.249	(none)	Beads. 1 carnelian ball; 2-chalcedony lentoids; 1 hemispherical section lapis lazuli.
17371	(none)	1931,1010.244	(none)	Beads. Glass paste lentoids. Glass paste ring beads, small green.; Carnelian oval flat bead engraved thus: [reference to drawing]; Lapis lazuli ball bead. 1 jasper?; Double conoid. Dark green. 1 greenish quartzite double conoid. [drawing]
16217C	(none)	1931,1010.226	(none)	Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period.
16199	(none)	1931,1010.222	(none)	Beads: Agate, lapis & frit scaraboids, one agate barrel.
16727	(none)	1931,1010.219	(none)	Beads: Carnelian, lapis lazuli, agate, quartz, lentoids, bugles, double conoids, rings and a lapis lazuli frog amulet.
16424	(none)	1931,1010.1	(none)	Statue. White limestone, with eyes inlaid with shell and lapis; traces of black paint on hair. Female figure standing, hands clasped in front of the body. Nose broken, one eye pupil restored. The hair is simply treated with curls across the forehead, then a broad bandeau; the back hair is brought up & over the bandeau in a small chignon and hangs in a heavy wave above the shoulders & at back of head. She wears a plain chiton & heavy cloak falling from the shoulders over the arms in straight lines to the feet. The feet are missing, the base of the stone being broken away; when found the statue was let into a round baase and bitumen had been plastered round it & smoothed down so as to make a spreading skirt at the expense of loss of design to the figure, which was this reduced from an original height ofc. 54mm to 37mm (the bitumen has been kept on by waxing). It had also been broken in half and mended with bitumen. The workmanship is not very good, and the decayed surface of the stone does it less than justice - but the type is a good classical one. The statue was obviously an antiquity given a place of honor in a temple which must date to circ. BC; so that the date of the statue might well be as early as the 3rd dynasty of UR.
15119.1	(none)	1930,1213.94	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads. Lapis lazuli & carnelian cylindrical beads.
14335	(none)	1930,1213.92	(none)	Necklace. Glazed frit(?) fluted double conoids; 1 lapis lazuli double conoid; 1 rock crystal cylindrical; 1 carnelian ring bead.
14096.1	(none)	1930,1213.91	(none)	[.1-.3] Necklace. Carnelian cylindrical beads and lapis lazuli barrels, strung alternately.
14479O	(none)	1930,1213.82	(none)	[K-O] Beads (5) of black stone (?) tubular and ringed as if lathe-turned.
14479N	(none)	1930,1213.81	(none)	[K-O] Beads (5) of black stone (?) tubular and ringed as if lathe-turned.
14479M	(none)	1930,1213.76	(none)	[K-O] Beads (5) of black stone (?) tubular and ringed as if lathe-turned.
14479L	(none)	1930,1213.75	(none)	[K-O] Beads (5) of black stone (?) tubular and ringed as if lathe-turned.
14479K	(none)	1930,1213.73	(none)	[K-O] Beads (5) of black stone (?) tubular and ringed as if lathe-turned.
13558	(none)	1930,1213.72	(none)	Beads. Lapis double conoids rounded, and 1 large carnelian ring bead.
13783F	(none)	1930,1213.69	(none)	[A-O] Beads. Gold and lapis double conoids of various sizes.
13783H	(none)	1930,1213.68	(none)	[A-O] Beads. Gold and lapis double conoids of various sizes.
13783G	(none)	1930,1213.67	(none)	[A-O] Beads. Gold and lapis double conoids of various sizes.
13783A	(none)	1930,1213.66	(none)	Beads. Gold and lapis double conoids of various sizes.
13783E	(none)	1930,1213.64	(none)	[A-O] Beads. Gold and lapis double conoids of various sizes.
13783C	(none)	1930,1213.63	(none)	[A-O] Beads. Gold and lapis double conoids of various sizes.