Examples of alabaster in the following topics:
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- Materials range from terra cotta, stones like alabaster and gypsum, and metals like copper and bronze.
- Materials range from alabaster to limestone to gypsum, depending on each figure's significance.
- The Assyrians, on the other hand, developed a style of large and exquisitely detailed narrative reliefs in painted stone or alabaster.
- The votive figure—made from alabaster, shell, black limestone, and bitumen—depicts a male worshiper of Enil, a powerful Mesopotamian god.
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- Life-size tomb effigies in stone or alabaster became popular among the wealthy, and grand multi-level tombs evolved.
- By the 15th century there was an industry exporting small Nottingham alabaster altar reliefs in groups of panels over much of Europe for economical parishes who could not afford stone retables.
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- Deposits of decorative stones such as porphyry, greywacke, alabaster, and carnelian dotted the eastern desert and were collected even before the First Dynasty.
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- According to contemporaneous inscriptions, the palace consisted of wood from a diverse number of tree species, alabaster, limestone, and a variety of precious metals.
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- Other materials that were carved traditionally include alabaster, mineral gypsum and gems.
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- The Assyrians, on the other hand, developed a style of large and exquisitely detailed narrative reliefs in painted stone or alabaster.
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- Marble, Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippos from 330 BC; the alabaster mantle is a modern addition.
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- Alabaster was often used for expensive versions of these, while painted wood was the most common material, normally used for the small models of animals, slaves and possessions that were placed in tombs to provide for the afterlife.
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- Other raw materials can include feldspar, ball clay, glass, bone ash, steatite, quartz, petuntse and alabaster.
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- Materials such as gypsum and alabaster added to the luxurious appearance of the interior.