Let into the pillar, on each of its four sides, there is an image of Buddha, inside and out shining and transparent, and pure as it were of lapis lazuli.

Among them stood a lapis bowl in a Renaissance mounting of enamel and a vase of Phenician glass that was like a bit of rainbow caught in cobwebs.

Indae, fumitoriae, de assaieret, of lapis armenus and lazuli, diasena.

Lapis lazzudis, from Persia.