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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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) |
| 8937 | (none) | (none) | B17110 | Stone vase. White Calcite. (Rim broken). Type LXIII |
| 9179 | (none) | (none) | B17130 | [CARD MISSING] Bowl. White calcite. Type XVII | |
| 9724 | (none) | (none) | B17136 | Calcite bowl Translucent Type XVIII | |
| 12135 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster Lamp. In imitation of shell. At spout end a bearded bull in relief. |
| 12265 | (none) | 1929,1017.664 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Alabaster. Type same as U.12236. [Type] LXXI. |
| 12310 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster vase. Spill type. Broken. [Type] II. |
| 12696D | (none) | 1928,1017.685 | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper pin with curled head [Type] VII. [drawing] [B] (2) Silver wire earrings 2 1/2 coils. [C] (3) Silver and lapis lentoid beads strung in alternate pairs [D] (4) Alabaster miniature spill vase [Type] CII [D]. [drawing] |
| 13680 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster fragment. Inscribed with beginning of dedication(?) dBARA den-lil-gar-ra ddumu-zi E-IGI-NIM. HC.8 |
| 13799 | (none) | 1935,0113.377 | (none) | Spill vase. Alabaster (white calcite) much broken. [Type] XLVII. |
| 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. |
| 15117 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White alabaster. Crushed, distorted and smashed. CVIII. |
| 15118 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White translucent alabaster. Found adhering to U.15116. Type XII (RC22b). JN5b [drawing 2:5] |
| 15451 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabastron. Alabaster. Persian. [drawing 2:5] |
| 15661 | (none) | 1930,1213.171 | (none) | Vase. Fragment. Alabaster. Part of 2 lines of dedication to a god NE...(possibley Ne-Dar??) writing irregular and probably very archaic. HC.21 |
| 15773 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White alabaster. Type: same as U.15101. CVIII. |
| 15775 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Alabaster alabastron. 2 small lug handles. |
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