Alabaster

A fine-grained, marblelike variety of gypsum that is soft and easy to carve but rather fragile; it is usually a translucent white or pink.

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A fine-grained, marblelike variety of gypsum that is soft and easy to carve but rather fragile; it is usually a translucent white or pink.

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c. 721–705 B.C.E.

1489–93

c. 3500–3000 B.C.E.

c. 1440–70

c. 1404–10