alabaster
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The alabaster vase bears inscriptions in four ancient languages: Akkadian, Elamite, Persian, and Egyptian.
From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2025
Among the nearly 100 works on view are sculptures in iron, wood, alabaster and clay as well as drawings, collages and experimental works using paper.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
But only one welcomes you at the top of its driveway with the serene, spectral presence of a 20-foot-tall alabaster head of a young girl, “Sanna,” crafted by famed Spanish artist Jaume Plensa.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025
Artefacts, including fragments of alabaster jars which bore the inscriptions of the names of Thutmose II and Hatshepsut, provided definitive evidence.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
They made an alabaster trench in his mouth, and his pink-purple lips peeled bade over them like the meat of a conch shell He had a big welt, like a scar, on his left cheek.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
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