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)
11720	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis lentoids & double conoids.
11726	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Pin with plain lapis ball head capped with gold.
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.
11737	(none)	1929,1017.560	(none)	Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. Type V.
11738	(none)	1929,1017.561	(none)	Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V.
11742B	(none)	1929,1017.240	(none)	Beads. Frontlet. Small gold ring pendants [A] (13) string on 3 rows of beads [B]: between each pair one very small lapis bead, one carnelian tubular bead, one very small lapis bead.
11743B	(none)	1929,1017.265	(none)	Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743C	(none)	1929,1017.266	(none)	Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11744D	(none)	1929,1017.260	(none)	Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11744E	(none)	1929,1017.275	(none)	Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11751	(none)	1929,1017.348	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell, the ends inlaid with lapis disks. Very much decayed. 2 heroes & 4 animals: man on the left strikes at a rampant bull(?) turned away from him & grappling with a lion(?) this lions body crosses that of a second lion who attacks a bull which is seized from behind by a figure half human and half bull. Between the two human figures is a double column inscription, upper register only:-Mes-kalam-dug(or sar) Lugal.
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).
11809A	(none)	1929,1017.12	(none)	[A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings.
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)?
11839A	(none)	1929,1017.310	(none)	[A-C based on museum divisions] Beads Lapis. Lentoids and bugles = probably both belonging to a wreath of silver beech leaves (which were all decayed). [D-E] With these, 2 hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, and [F] a large lunate earring of the Queen Shub-ad type, but in silver: a long silver wire may belong to this.