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)
9018	(none)	(none)	(none)	String of beads 19 in all Small lapis, gold and carnelian barrel beads, a few ring beads and 2 large copper beads.
9022	(none)	1928,1009.78	(none)	Necklace Gold plated beads on a copper core, (double conoids), lapis lazuli double conoids and 1 long lapis lentoid
9023	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Gilgamesh and Enkidu back to back. The former, horned, grasps a rampant leopard? (a spotted beast) by the tail, the latter apparently wearing a tiara consisting of 4 erect head pieces grasps a rampant lion by the tail. Beyond, a horned and bearded hero advancing towards a rampant gazelle. c. 3000 BC
9024	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant bull and rampant lion, respectively.
9027	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Man-headed bearded bull crossed with lion rampant. On one side a spotted leopard?, on the other side a gazelle, both rampant. A grotesque male figure grasps the leopard by the tail. This figure wears a tiara? This is represented by 4 engraved lines having the appearance of plumes over the head. Behind the gazelle near the top of the seal, a small grotesque figure resting upon one knee. Coarse second-rate cutting.
9030	(none)	(none)	(none)	String of beads. About 20. Minute carnelian and lapis ring beads. A carnelian barrel bead - a lapis ball bead.
9082	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli 2 registers Above: male figure attacking rampant gazelle - behind the gazelle a rampant lion, also, figure behind the man. Beyond them a second male figure wearing a pigtail? Similarly engaged. Below: male figure holding rampant lion by the tail - a gazelle - 2 rampant lions crossed - a gazelle, all rampant. Also, a crescent moon - above a post?
9085	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pin Lapis ring bead head with copper cap. Broken in 3 pieces. [type] V
9089	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace About 85 beads Silver & lapis lozenge shaped beads, slightly convex: 1 banded sard, lapis barrel & double conoid, & carnelian of similar type. Also, 2 carnelian bugle beads For order of stringing cf. Field Note PG 544 (18)
9094A	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 Necklaces A. Minute lapis ball beads. B. Minute silver ball beads Lapis necklace on top of silver.
9109	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads Silver and lapis, thin lentoids.
9124A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Beads 2 Long facetted conoids. One Lapis, 1- silver over a bitumen core. [drawing] [C] Also, a silver earring [drawing]
9129	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small carnelian rings, long bugles, and lapis beads small mixed.
9142	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Diamond-shaped flat plate beads alternately lapis and gold plate over copper - the latter in bad condition. One string.
9143	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small lentoids of lapis & gold (thin plate over copper), with a few carnelians: strung in sets of 6. See field notes. one strings
9144	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads very small lapis and gold balls, with them a pendant of artificial cat's eye (hematite(?) & shell) set in copper. [drawing of cat's eye]
9150	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Lapis Men fighting beasts.
9151	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pin With gold and lapis ball head the stem is pierced and through the back passes a copper ring: from this hangs apparently a very slender copper chain (almost entirely destroyed): the chain runs along the pin to the point where a silver seal (U.9150) was fixed by corrosion to the stem, and it presumably supported the seal. [Type V]
9160	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inlay Square shell plaques with 5 dots of lapis inset. [drawing] 1:1
9164	(none)	(none)	(none)	Acorn? of lapis and carnelian [drawing]
9165A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads Small string of lapis and carnelian, mixed types.
9177	(none)	(none)	(none)	[CARD MISSING] Beads. A few - 4 gold, some lapis, and 2 small bugles of red and white banded agate
9202	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace Silver double conoids and small silver ball beads. 4 or 5 small to 1 large. And a number of slightly convex lozenge lapis beads.
9211	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 Facetted Lentoid Beads 2 lapis, 1 gold
9231	(none)	(none)	(none)	String of beads Lapis lozenges, 1 carnelian bugle and copper ball beads.