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)
11809C	30-12-619	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings.
11809D	30-12-756	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings.
11824	30-12-440	(none)	(none)	Remains of Scepter (?) Shell knob inlaid with gold & color, wooden staff also decorated with very thin gold leaf & minute mosaic in lapis & red. Very bad condition.
11825	30-12-1	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli. Gazelle attacked by bull, & gazelle attacked by 2 bulls. Inscription: Su-sikil(?) DINGER-SES-AB lugal-ni Kalam-dug-dam. We expect dam-Kalam-dug and perhaps this is possible. ni is written between lines 2 &3, and dam between lines 3 & 4, but both at the end (right). Provisional translation: -Pure Hand (=Handmaid ?) of Nannar (new ideogram.) her King. Kalam-dug-dam (or Dam-Kalam-dug =Wife of the good land).
11828	30-12-5	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above, banquet; below, 2 gazelles. (rough & early work).
11835	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver Pin. With plain lapis ball head and [B, C] a pair of hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, each hair-ring, 2 spirals interlaced.
11836	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Mostly lapis, some silver & 2 carnelian, with lapis spacer in form of 2 birds (or beetles)?
11844	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 1, very long carnelian bugle; a few smaller beads, carnelian, lapis & silver. (see Field Notes).
11855	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Barrels & lentoids of gold, lapis & carnelian, with flat carnelian pendant. (for order see Field Notes).
11856	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Double conoids of gold & lapis (strung in sets: see Field Notes).
11871	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 seated deities with attendants.
11873	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 Beads. 1 very long carnelian bugle. 1 equally long of wood & 1 (facetted) of lapis.
11878	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 2 Carnelian & 1 gold bugles & small Lapis balls, making a frontlet.
11892	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Very slender bugles, 3 of lapis, 3 of gold, & a pear-shaped rock crystal pendant.
11894	30-12-610	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian lentoids & lapis beads of various sorts, carnelian rings & jasper bugles. For order see Field Notes.
11895	30-12-15	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 ibex walking.
11897	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: in each, men & various animals fighting.
11899	30-12-21	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Geometrical design.
11907	30-12-755	(none)	(none)	Wreath of gold leaves & beads of lapis and [crossed out] carnelian.
11908	30-12-759	(none)	(none)	Wreath. Gold ring pendants on a string of lapis and [crossed out] carnelian beads. [Drawing of ring and attachment]
11914	30-12-564	(none)	(none)	Frontlet gold chain, 2 large lapis facetted lentoids, & 1 gold ditto. (one gold chain was not found)
11930	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis & silver double conoids (see Field Notes)
11931A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. (with this, [B-C] 2 silver finger rings: see box U.11930)
11935	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis double conoids, carnelian bugles, carnelian rings, small lapis balls, and silver beads (decayed) See Field Notes.
11938	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers in each, men & animals.