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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![]() | 11702 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis & carnelian bugles & lentoids forming a bracelet. |
![]() | 11710B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. (A) Copper Pin with fluted head (broken) (B) A quantity of lapis double conoid beads.; (C) Cockle shells with green & blue paint. |
![]() | 11713 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small lapis & gold lentoids with a gold pendant formed of 2 spiral coils of thin wire and copper finger ring. |
![]() | 11714 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small lapis lentoids. |
![]() | 11718 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis double conoids & 2 carnelians; also a pair of silver wire spiral coil earrings. |
![]() | 11720 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis lentoids & double conoids. |
![]() | 11726 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Pin with plain lapis ball head capped with gold. |
11728 | 30-12-561 | (none) | (none) | Beads. A necklace formed of 17 gold tube beads with applique filigree decoration, 16 plain gold lentoids, 34 plain lapis lentoids, 1 large gold fluted ball, 2 ditto. lapis and a number of very small carnelian rings. For order see Field Notes. | |
![]() | 11729 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. String of lapis lentoids with 1 carnelian, 1 copper, & 1 silver bead. |
![]() | 11734 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above mythological beasts; below, a monkey under a tree playing pipes to 2 lions, a bull, a gazelle, and a humn-headed bird. |
11743A | 30-12-449 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes). | |
11744A | 30-12-629 | (none) | (none) | Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows. | |
11744B | 30-12-640 | (none) | (none) | Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows. | |
11744C | 30-12-642 | (none) | (none) | Beads. A string of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows. | |
11757 | 30-12-13 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Sides slightly convex. 2 registers: gazelles rough linear drawing. | |
![]() | 11770 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frontlet. Gold ring pendants (13) separated by carnelian rings & small lapis bugles. (see Field Notes). |
![]() | 11773 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers above, banquet scene; below, Imdugud. |
![]() | 11774 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above, banquet; below, seated deities (?). |
![]() | 11775 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin. With lapis ball head striated & capped with gold. Type V.B. |
![]() | 11777 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. Type XIX. |
![]() | 11778B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Silver Rings (20) and [B] lapis lazuli buttons (26) worn at the waist, either on a belt or on the fringe of a short cloak: see Field Notes. |
![]() | 11780A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. All the mixed lot collected from the grave: see Field Notes. [B] Some human teeth. |
![]() | 11798 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Head. A god or hero with human face & bulls ears and horns. The eyes originally inlaid with lapis & shell: the right eye gone altogether, of the left the lapis preserved. |
![]() | 11807 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Long lentoids of gold, lapis & carnelian in sets of 4 (see Field Notes). |
11809B | 30-12-618 | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings. |
Related Terms
Amber - Chalcedony - Chrysoberyl - Hematite - Iron Pyrite - Jadeite - Malachite - Quartz - Turquoise
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