Types Calcite alabaster This substance, the alabaster of the Ancient Egyptians and Bible, often is termed Oriental alabaster , since the early examples came from the Far East.

A sarcophagus, sculptured in a single block of translucent calcite alabaster from Alabastron, is in the Sir John Soane's Museum, London.

The Oriental alabaster was highly esteemed for making small perfume bottles or ointment vases called alabastra the vessel name has been suggested as a possible source of the mineral name.

And you see you have a beautiful piece of white alabaster.

In Europe, the centre of the alabaster trade today is Florence, Italy.

The mineral is worked largely by means of underground galleries, in the district of Volterra.

The gypsum kind is so soft as to be readily scratched with a fingernail (Mohs hardness 1.5 to 2), while the calcite kind is too hard to be scratched in this way (Mohs hardness 3), although it does yield readily to a knife.

Murad III had also two large alabaster Hellenistic urns transported from Pergamon and placed on two sides of the nave.

In 1339, it was relocated to an alabaster sarcophagus in the crypt of the newly built Cathedral of Santa Eulalia.

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In Egypt craftsmen used alabaster for canopic jars and various other sacred and sepulchral objects.

The lowest of the ranges is the Cordillera Oriental , in the eastern part of the country.

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Calcite alabaster is found as either a stalagmitic deposit, from the floor and walls of limestone caverns, or as a kind of travertine, similarly deposited in springs of calcareous water.

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