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)
7910	(none)	1928,1009.138	(none)	Frog amulet. Lapis lazuli. [drawing 1:1][CARD MISLABELED U.7940B][Arabic notes on back of card] [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
10008	(none)	(none)	(none)	Frog Amulet. Lapis [drawing]
2563	(none)	1927,1003.256	(none)	Fragment of lapis-lazuli. From inlay: representing man's curled beard. Pierced at back for fixing. [drawing 1:1]
2752	(none)	1927,1003.258	(none)	Fragment of inlay. Lapis-lazuli, with incised lines representing hair or water. [drawing 1:1]
2550	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of inlay. Lapis-Lazuli, pierced for wiring and engraved to represent flower petal (?) [drawing 1:1]
12050	(none)	1929,1017.224	(none)	Flowers. 3 of gold thus [drawing 1;1], and petals of white shell, lapis & gold of 3 more. As far as could be seen the latter belonged to a comb & had silver backs: the gold flowers were on the head and may have belonged to the comb or have been attached to the hair ribbon. [drawing 1:1]
8212	(none)	(none)	B16790	Flower head ornament in silver, lapis and gold. The whole flower is silver, a flat truncated plate of thin metal on a fairly solid stem: on the end of each of the five petals is a ball of lapis capped with gold. Two lapis beads are corroded on to the end of the stem and may belong there (see U.8210). There was certainly a second similar flower on the other side of the head (this one rose from the right ear) but it was all broken up.
10945	(none)	1928,1010.89	(none)	Fish Amulet. Lapis. Found with U.10943, 10944. [drawing 1:1]
9778	(none)	(none)	(none)	Finger Ring Gold Cloisonne work set with lapis; bent and partly broken, and some of the inlay missing [drawing]
8368	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine of bull. Lapis lazuli. The bull seated, head L, the body in profile, the head turned to the spectator and seen full face: a formally-curled square beard is tied under the bull's chin by a cord passing across its nose.
8325	(none)	(none)	B16802	Figurine of bull in lapis lazuli wearing a false beard. [drawing] 1:1 Style of the 1st Dynasty of Ur.
2920	(none)	1927,1003.240	(none)	Eye from figurine. Shell with pupil of lapis lazuli. [drawing 1:1]
11576A	(none)	1929,1017.40	(none)	Earring. Copper & gold. [A] A large coil of copper with lunate ends, inside which was a smaller [B] similar one of gold: this probably hung from the former. (with this are 3 largish facetted lentoid beads, 2 of lapis, one of silver, from the same grave).
11576B	(none)	1929,1017.40	(none)	Earring. Copper & gold. [A] A large coil of copper with lunate ends, inside which was a smaller [B] similar one of gold: this probably hung from the former. (with this are 3 largish facetted lentoid beads, 2 of lapis, one of silver, from the same grave).
10316	(none)	(none)	(none)	Earring Lapis lazuli with gold hoop. The pendant is shaped like a saddle, smooth on one side, decorated with oblique incisions on the other. The incised side has a raised ridge running down its axis; the ridge is perforated in 3 places and gold links remain in case of two of the holes. The body of the earring is further perforated 4 times probably to admit gold suspenders. The gold hoop was attached to it on the one side by a hole through which the wire was passed and then wound about itself. On the other side the hoop end was inserted through the hole and then bent against the lapis suspender so as to be made fast.
10450	(none)	(none)	(none)	Drinking [struck out: "sceptic?'] Tube made of cylindrical lengths of lapis and gold strung on silver wire, or slender rod: it lay along the end of the box and one end was bent down into the large silver pot U____ also, half in this was a piece of silver tube which is probably the head of the sceptre.
10911	(none)	(none)	B17548	Drinking tube made of a very thin copper pipe encased in short tubes of lapis lazuli 002-0035 long. (broken).
9252	(none)	(none)	(none)	Donkey's ear? Lapis lazuli Spoon shaped with a rounded socket which must originally have been fitted to the statue of which the lapis ear was a part. Back of the ear is convex with a ridge running vertically down the middle. At the socket end of the ear in the middle, a shallow circular cavity 0004 in diameter. [drawing] 1:1
14475A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Dog collar. Lapis lazuli and gold triangular spacers.
8693	(none)	(none)	B16798	Diadem. Composed of two pieces of gold (imitation chain) and 3 beads, large lentoids, 2 of lapis, 1 of gold. See field notes. The gold 'chains' are made of 4 strings of twisted 2-ply gold wire soldered together: one has come unsoldered at the end. The beads must have come in the middle of the forehead and a string must have connected the gold pieces behind the head.
10553	(none)	(none)	(none)	Dagger Copper blade (broken) Hilt of silver with gold guard studded with lapis and gold studs on pommel: the silver all decayed.
10407	(none)	1928,1010.102	(none)	Cyliner Seal Lapis lazuli Presentation scene: 3 figures, all standing, and 2 columns of inscription: Bur iluda-gan; mar Ku-ru-ub iluadad
12011A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seals. (A) Lapis, geometric pattern. (B) White translucent calcite decayed & design gone.
11110	(none)	(none)	B16897	Cylinder Seal? lapis lazuli. Minute linear incisions oblique to the vertical axis of the seal. 2 registers. [drawing]
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.