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Precious stones and semi-precious stones including topaz, lapis lazuli, and aquamarine, can be bought loose or set in rings, necklaces, bracelets, or brooches.
Cretans exhibited their skills with paint, clay, copper, bronze, and gold was highly prized and raw materials flowed in — lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, ivory from Syria, and gold, silver, and black obsidian from Anatolia.
Steps nearby lead underground to the Lapis Niger, a black marble pavement laid by Julius Caesar over the presumed grave of Romulus, the city’s founder.
And what in the world is one to make of William Butler Yeats's startling revelation in his poem Lapis Lazuli (from Last Poems ) that
Its profusion of lapis lazuli is actually a thin shell fused to plaster stucco.