alabaster
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Amid all the flash and bling, an alabaster weight used to hold down the cloth spreads that covered palace floors during the hot months could easily escape notice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The alabaster vase bears inscriptions in four ancient languages: Akkadian, Elamite, Persian, and Egyptian.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 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
And if I take a nail file or even Eva’s old paring knife— that will do—and scrape away at the gold, it will fall away and there will be alabaster.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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