Alabaster

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thumb|Calcite alabaster: The tomb of Tutankhamun (d. 1323 BC) contained a practical objet d’art, a cosmetics jar made of Egyptian alabaster, which features a lid surmounted by a lioness (goddess Bast).

Rossano is a town and frazione of Corigliano-Rossano in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, southern Italy. The city is situated on an eminence from the Gulf of Taranto. The town is known for its marble and alabaster quarries.

Italian comune

human settlement in Conca de Barberà, Tarragona Province, Catalonia, Spain

mosque in Egypt

right|thumb|Greek glass alabastron, probably made in Italy in 1st/2nd century BC, and now part of the Campana Collection of the Musée du Louvre.

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25th-century BC statue of the praying figure of Ebih-Il

alabaster female figurine, made in the 7th century BC

collection of mesopotamian statues

1857 archaeological discovery

thumb|220px|Main quarry ("Quarry P") at Hatnub Hatnub was the location of Egyptian alabaster quarries and an associated seasonally occupied workers' settlement in the Eastern Desert, about from el-Minya, southeast of el-Amarna. The pottery, hieroglyph inscriptions and hieratic graffiti at the site show that it was in use intermittently from at least as early as the reign of Khufu until the Roman period (c. 2589 BC–AD 300). The Hatnub quarry settlement, associated with three principal quarries, like those associated with gold mines in the Wadi Hammamat and elsewhere, are characterized by drysto

cave and nature reserve in Israel

stone sphinx located near the remains of Memphis, Egypt

Artifact found in the tomb of Tutankhamun

Italian sculptor (1830–1902)

Title of Maria of Rabida

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Holocaust massacre in Artemivsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Bakhmut, Ukraine)

Egyptian alabaster jar