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

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

The king stares intently into an eternal distance through composite orbs fashioned from alabaster and glass, rendered in varying degrees of clarity, transparency and opacity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 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