Royal Blue & Gold Shiny Lapis Oval BeadsPrice is per 16 inch string of these beautiful beads. Each oval measures 13mm x 10mm x 6mm about 31 to the string. Loads of gold pyrite! Lapis Lazuli is gemstone straight out of fairy tales of the Arabian Nights: deepest blue with golden shining Pyrite inclusions which twinkle like little stars. Named after lapis, the Latin word for stone, and the Arabian for blue. Thousands of years before Christ, Egyptian and Persian royalty wore lapis as a talisman