“When we come back next month all the trees there will be gone,” Lapis says.
He brought a horse in his right hand, a sistrum in his left, a sistrum of gold and lapis lazuli.
He had great ideas of his own cleverness, and hoped from the bottom of his heart to win the lapis lazuli.
This tomb contained also a string of beads, barrel beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian and gold foil, and small discs of gold.
The front of this balcony is overlaid with gold, and richly decorated with turquoise and lapis lazuli.
It is evident, however, from Pliny's description, that the "sapphirus" of the ancients was the lapis lazuli of the present day.
