Alabaster
Alabaster is a synonym of calcite, and is used mainly in vessels. It is deposited in layers, viging it its banded appearance. This material's color is colorless, white, brown, and opaque. The alabaster in Egypt and the Near East is usually the Calcium Alabaster rather than the Gypsum Alabaster.
Alabaster is a synonym of calcite, and is used mainly in vessels. It is deposited in layers, viging it its banded appearance. This material's color is colorless, white, brown, and opaque. The alabaster in Egypt and the Near East is usually the Calcium Alabaster rather than the Gypsum Alabaster.
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 64 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. In very bad condition, stained and whole surface eroded, much of rim broken away. [drawing 1:2] |
| 6410 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster fragment. Figurine in low relief on one side of man holding an object against his chest in left hand. Next to him a pig beneath an ark. On the other side a peacock also beneath the ark. Borrom of ark represented by plain band 1mm in thickness rising upwards at the end in a curve. B. [drawing 1:2] |
| 6424 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Base of alabaster statue. Foot alone remaining. Toes and nails carefully modeled. B. [drawing] |
| 6440 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster block. Holes piered in sides. E. [drawing] |
| 6441 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster vase. Broken at top. Type XXIX (stone). B. |
| 6486 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Miniature bull pendant. Alabaster. Greenish yellow. B. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6500 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Alabaster : rectangular. Flat one side, pyramid shaped on the other. Early Sumerian Figure, seated on an [reference to X shaped miniature sketch] shaped throne, and holding a drinking cup [miniature sketch in form of inverted triangle]- He is bare headed. Before 3000 BC? B. |
| 6614A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster statuette. Fragment with remains of pedestal. Kneeling bull in relief, sitting on right hind leg. Body bent slightly forward, traces of dewlap remains, head lost. B. |
| 6776B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Vase. Alabaster. White. Inscribed. En-an-ni-pad-da, priest of Nannar son of Ur Bau, patesi of Lagash. Type II. (JN 19 near) Enter in Larsa catalog [last word may be incorrect] B. |
| 6782 | (none) | (none) | B16228 | Head of Ningal? Alabaster. White. Eyes inlaid in lapis lazuli. E. [illegible, possibly resinous] cast in BM 118564. | |
| 6933 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl alabaster. Greenish grey. Broken and fragmentary. Type. Omit. |
| 6942 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster statue. Fragment. On one side a cylindrical fragment in relief upon it incised vertical lines with oval shaped grooves at equidistant intervals on the lines. Bottom of cylindrical fragment consists of two raised bands which look like the flounced tiers of a kaukanes skirt. Next to it against the long side another cylindrical bu undulating fragment decorated with wavy lines and one spiral which abuts on the side of the first cylindrical fragment, surface of which is 15mm than surface of fragment adjoining. text: E-Hursag(11). B. |
| 6946 | (none) | 1927,0527.58 | (none) | Alabaster vase. Veined, white and yellow. Broken and fragmentary. Type. |
| 7070 | (none) | (none) | B16222 | Vase. Alabaster. White. Fragment. Type. Ur. | |
| 7633 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Miniature hands. Alabaster. White. Fragment. Part of statuette? representing a figure with right hand clasped over left. 4 fingers of left hand and 2 of right alone remain. Tips of 2 fingers of right hand only, nails carefully carved. Tips of fingers of left hand missing; hand partially closed. Little finger of right hand rests on first finger of left hand. |
| 7800 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White alabaster Inscription giving end of dedication formula. HC 31 |
| 7807 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster vase fragment Rimus: ded. to Sin (from booty of Elam?) Lines 1-9 of an inscription identical with that of vase C, SAK p. 162 except line 2 which is ^dEN-ZU: NB.2 or 3 signs scratched on the base. HC 76 |
| 7843 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of vase. Alabaster. da-n)um; sar; ki-ib-i)a-tum. HC.46. |
| 7936 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Alabaster. Veined. Yellowish. Type? LVII. |
| 8575 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal White shell Very archaic design One human figure and 3 large pots? (see PG 313) |
| 859 | (none) | (none) | B14983 | Alabaster pot. A plain cylinder with very slight ridge round base and rim. Restored from fragments, rim chipped and part of one side missing. | |
| 860 | (none) | (none) | B14984 | Alabaster pot. Cylindrical, carinated sides, flat everted rim. Restored from fragments and about half missing. | |
| 880 | (none) | (none) | B14942, B14942 | Stone vase fragment of, in pink-veined alabaster. Section from base to rim complete but only width of 004 of bowl left. Inscribed 3 lines from middle reads: named (of) Sin the son?. |
| 883 | (none) | 1923,1110.56 | (none) | Alabaster vase fragment (about 1/3) of, giving complete section, of carinated cylindrical jar with plain everted rim in pink-veined mackeral alabaster. |
| 884A | (none) | (none) | B14969 | Alabaster cup, fragments of, 5 pieces, reduced to 3, of straight-sided cup or tumbler in poor quality white alabaster. Type RC.13 |
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