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Pendants - Lapis Lazuli Sun Pendant
Pendants - Lapis Lazuli Sun Pendant
Pendants - Lapis Lazuli Sun Pendant
Pendants - Lapis Lazuli Sun Pendant

Lapis lazuli Sun Pendant SKU: P0023

$64.00

Bright Lapis lazuli Sun pendant. Oxidized sun beams, open back. Handcrafted, the work that goes into this piece is amazing. 

  • 92.5 Sterling Silver
  • Weight: 17.8 grams
  • Length: 2.75 inches
  • Width: 2.25 inches
  • SKU: P0023

Lapis lazuli, Afghanistan's blue treasure, is a metamorphic rock, deep blue to purple mottled with calcite, sodalite and pyrite. Lapis lazuli usually occurs in crystalline marble and the most important component is lazurite. 

Prized for intense color since thousands of years BC, by the end of the middle ages lapis lazuli was used to make Ultramarine, the most refined and expensive of all blue tones.

Afghanistan, was the source of lapis lazuli for the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, as well as Greeks and Romans. 

In ancient Egypt, lapis lazuli was a favorite stone to carb amulets, adorned daggers and for jewelry. Powder lapis was used as eyeshadow by Cleopatra.

Exodus 24:10: " And they saw the God of Israel, and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone...:(KJV) "Lapidus sapphiri" was the citation, a term used for lapis lazuli. (Sapphire wasn't known before the Roman Empire.