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The working of alabaster in Egypt. Alabaster is used mainly for ornamental carvings, and though normally translucent, can be given an opaque, marblelike appearance by heat treatment.

Naturally occurring fine-grained white or light-coloured translucent form of gypsum, often streaked or mottled. A soft material, it is easily carved, but seldom used for outdoor sculpture.

Alabaster

Town in Shelby County, central Alabama, USA; population (1990) 14,700. It is situated 31 km/19 mi south of Birmingham, Alabama. Formerly a small agricultural and limestone shipping community, it has grown quickly since the 1970s as a Birmingham suburb.



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This is where the cross and the empty tomb were headed all along for us, for the woman with the alabaster jar, for Simon, and even for David in the sense that the pattern of his healing is the same as ours.
Proper 6 June 13, 2004 by Currents in Theology and Mission
While Jesus was in Bethany at the home of a man Simon the Leper, a woman came to with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume oil .
Naming as healing by Barnett, Marie / Women Magazine
Some believe the conflation of Mary of Bethany and Mary of Magdala results not just from their shared name but also from the presence of the alabaster jar of perfumed oil.
Who framed Mary Magdalene? by SCHLUMPF, HEIDI / U.S. Catholic
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