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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 884B | (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 |
| 884C | (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 |
| 885 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster cup fragments of straight-sided cup or tumbler in pinkish alabaster. |
| 886 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster Vase fragment, apparently of a lid, whereon in relief the hind-quarters of a bull lying down left. Coarse alabaster. |
| 887 | (none) | (none) | B14985 | Alabaster Vase fragments of, fitted together (plain) giving complete section. |
| 888 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl fragment of in veined and colored alabaster. |
| 890 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl fragment of with remains of projecting solid handle on one side. Remains of inscription. |
| 8937 | (none) | (none) | B17110 | Stone vase. White Calcite. (Rim broken). Type LXIII |
| 896 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster lion. Fragment of showing greater part of body and bit of mane, of a recumbent lion carved in the round: apparently from the rim of a very large bowl. |
| 897 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster fragment. From a figure of a lion (or sirus) carved in very high relief as part of the decoration of a mace head. [drawing] |
| 899 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. Fragment of in crystaline alabaster. |
| 903 | (none) | (none) | B14973 | Alabaster bowl 3 fragments. In fine pink-veined alabaster. | |
| 908 | (none) | 1923,1110.22 | (none) | Broken alabaster jar. 9 line inscription containing a [ins: 8ft of] [crossed out: dedication to or for (possibly) a] a king of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur by Utti... of Ninni his beloved son. |
| 910 | (none) | 1923,1110.57 | (none) | Alabaster vase. Fragment. |
| 9179 | (none) | (none) | B17130 | [CARD MISSING] Bowl. White calcite. Type XVII | |
| 94 | (none) | 1923,1110.47 | (none) | Frgs of alabaster vase. Decorated with winged ram in high relief. [drawing] |
| 9724 | (none) | (none) | B17136 | Calcite bowl Translucent Type XVIII |
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