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)
6782	(none)	(none)	B16228	Head of Ningal? Alabaster. White. Eyes inlaid in lapis lazuli. E. [illegible, possibly resinous] cast in BM 118564.
6795	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis lazuli, gold and paste.
6797	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pendant. Silver. Set with Lapiz lazuli. E.
6798	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis lazuli. Large collection.
6800	(none)	(none)	B16370	Pendant. Silver. Embossed. Round and convex. 3 holes pierced in top covered with lapis and silver beads and two silver filigree
6802	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Silver and lapis lazuli with one paste bead and one paste ring.
6823	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli bead. Mussel shaped. E. [drawing 1:1]
6840	(none)	(none)	(none)	Collection of beads. Paste, lapis lazuli, agate and one crystal 70 in number, all small.
6919	(none)	(none)	(none)	Carnelian beads. Collection of 22. Some broken. E.
6984	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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.
7505	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bangle. Carnelian, lapis lazuli, white paste and crystal beads. 4 spacers, 2 of bone pierced 6 times and 2 of lapis lazuli pierced 3 times. 133 beads in all.
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
7588	(none)	(none)	(none)	14 beads. Yellow paste ring beads and one lapis ball bead.
7619	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 113 beads. Mostly yellowish frit. 2 double conoid lapis lazuli, 1 double conoid carnelian and 1 carnelian ball bead.
7620	(none)	(none)	B16813	41 lapis lazuli beads. 5 bugle beads, 2 barrel beads, 1 double conoid, rest ball beads.
7657	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 2 registers. Bangquet scene. Above: seated god holding food? in upright left hand. nest a second seated figure holding up left hand to greet a standing attendant. Third seated figure also holding food in upraised left hand, and standing figure also holding food? opposite. All are shaven and shorn and wear sheep skin dresses. Below: A seated figure holding up hand towards door of shrine? Behind him a second seated figure holding up food which has been handed him by standing attendant. Behind this seated god a standing attendant facing the door of the shrine hands upraised. All have heads shaven and shorn and sheep skin dresses like figures on top register. c. 3000BC.
7664	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 2 registers. Top register: scene of worship. Goddess wearing high horned headdress leads votary by the hand towards seated god who wears flat headdress with horns. Botom: 3 swans swimming on water.
7693	(none)	(none)	(none)	String of beads. Gold, carnelian and lapis.
7893	(none)	(none)	(none)	String of beads. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 52 in number. Small ring beads, a few double conoid and 1 large ball bead.
7944	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace 93 lapis lazuli double conoid 11 carnelian ring beads 1 carnelian bugle bead 2 lots of silver ball beads in groups of 4 and 3
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.
7955	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. A tree, and 4 animals, 2 facing each way the central pair facing: rather poor engraving.
7956	(none)	(none)	B16856	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli: tall slender type broken in antiquity; mended. Two registers: above, 2 worshipers approaching a seated goddess with crescent. Below, 3 worshipers approaching a seated goddess with star; behind her a tree.
7962	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads of lapis, carnelian and gold, and one agate. Double conoids of different sizes, and 2 large gold-plated ball beads. 34 gold beads in all. There was evidence that these formed a separate string, stone and metal beads strung alternately.