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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19171 | 35-1-195 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Type 60b. | |
 | 15775 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Alabaster alabastron. 2 small lug handles. |
| 11803 | 30-12-89 | (none) | (none) | Stone Vase. | |
| 8937 | (none) | (none) | B17110 | Stone vase. White Calcite. (Rim broken). Type LXIII |
| 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?. |
| 16135 | 31-43-184 | (none) | (none) | Stone object. Alabaster. White. Elliptical shaped pierced with 5 circular holes, intercommunicating. [drawing 1:1 plan and elevation] |
| 19643 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone lamp? 'alabaster' |
| 19805 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone lamp. Alabaster. [drawing] |
| 19517 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowls [Annotated] ? vase. Oval Limestone Basic Diorite [Crossed out] 'alabaster'. Type JN 47 |
| 12025 | 30-12-90 | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Type LXXXI. [drawing] | |
| 19836 | 35-1-176 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 26 |
| 18516 | 33-35-100 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Banded limestone. [Type] 10. [drawing] |
| 12265 | (none) | 1929,1017.664 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Alabaster. Type same as U.12236. [Type] LXXI. |
| 14459A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Alabaster. Translucent. Decorated with a shallow nicked ridge. [Type] CIV. JN3. |
| 15116 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White translucent alabaster. Type same as PG 1824 (1). CVIII. |
| 15118 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White translucent alabaster. Found adhering to U.15116. Type XII (RC22b). JN5b [drawing 2:5] |
| 14291 | 31-16-447 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. Type XLIII. Nicked rim. Type XLIII. [drawing 2:5] |
| 14207 | 31-16-412 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. Nicked rim. Same as U.13589 [Type] XLIII. | |
| 15773 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White alabaster. Type: same as U.15101. CVIII. |
| 15117 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White alabaster. Crushed, distorted and smashed. CVIII. |
| 13722 | 31-17-24 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 13799 | (none) | 1935,0113.377 | (none) | Spill vase. Alabaster (white calcite) much broken. [Type] XLVII. |
| 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. |
| 19429 | 35-1-185 | (none) | (none) | Miniature stone vase. 'alabaster'. Type 28. | |
| 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. |
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