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)
11480	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Mostly hidden by 2 silver coiled wire earrings through which it passes. [drawing 1:1]
11485	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. One long bead of white shell, and a number of small lapis and carnelian beads, lentoids and balls. [drawing 1:1]
11488	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. Meander ribbon pattern in 2 registers.
11499	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. A man fighting two animals.
11501	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small lapis & carnelian & silver. see Field Notes.
11521B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tomb Group. Consisting (A) A gold frontlet, oval decorated edge with half-punctured dots, as also round the string-holes at each end: broken & parts missing. (B) Beads: a quantity of small lapis balls & a string of gold & carnelian bugles with lapis balls (see Field Notes) (C) A string-sealing of bitumen, a flattened ovoid.
11522	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 Beads. Long double conoids, two lapis, one gold; probably from a frontlet though found by the throat.
11531	30-12-451	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelians, lapis & chrysoprases (?) see Field Notes.
11535	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Gold, silver, carnelian & lapis. 4 large carnelian & 2 silver diamonds, the rest small balls, etc. See Field Notes.
11536	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Pin. With fluted lapis ball head set in gold. [Type] V.
11552	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Pin. With lapis ball head set in gold. Type I (new)
11553	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Pin. With fluted lapis ball head. Type I (new)
11554	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Animals and rosette.
11557	(none)	(none)	(none)	(beads) Wreath. Small gold leaves & tiny lapis ball beads (see Field Notes). (NB = most of the beads are in the mixed collection from the graves: a certain number kept with the leaves show the right type to be used for re-stringing.
11558	(none)	(none)	(none)	(beads) Wreath. Small gold ring pendants hanging from 3 rows of lapis & carnelian beads (See Field Notes) (NB most of the beads are in the mixed collection: than kept with the gold rings show the types to be used in re-stringing.)
11559	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Pandants of gold, lapis & carnelian (with spacers) strung on rows of very small lapis, carnelian & gold beads (see Field Notes). (Most of the beads are in the mixed collection: those kept with the pendants show the type to be used in re-stringing).
11560	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis, gold, carnelian & shell forming a belt. (See Field Notes). NB = Most of the beads are in the mixed collection. Then put apart in a cigarette box an almost [illegible 3 word phrase] of the same belt.)
11562	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Gold, lapis, carnelian & agate; the remainder of the beads from the grave. (See Field notes).
11580	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. 2 registers. Presentation scenes.
11581	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis with gold caps. A man, animals & a palm tree.
11585	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Long bugles of gold, lapis and carnelian (one of the latter with bleached pattern) and ball heads of the same materials: for order see Field Notes.
11590	30-12-34	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Inscription: Lugal-sa(g)-su(d) dumu Ka-ma.
11597C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group. [A](1) Shell, cut as a lamp & engraved with the head & neck of a bird (the eye orginally inlaid but inlay is missing) [drawing] [B](2) Copper Dagger (broken). Type IV; [C](3) Copper pin with lapis ball head (broken)[Type] V.
11598A	30-12-35	(none)	(none)	Group. [A](1) Cylinder Seal, lapis, man, lion & gazelle]. [B](2) Copper Axe Type XVII. [C](3) A few beads of lapis and copper.
11598C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group. [A](1) Cylinder Seal, lapis, man, lion & gazelle]. [B](2) Copper Axe Type XVII. [C](3) A few beads of lapis and copper.