An inscription of ownership on an expensive Egyptian alabaster vase once owned by the son has survived to attest the latter's short official career, and includes an unusual triple filiation which confirms the literary evidence to the effect that Clodius ' own filiation was: Ap.

He notes that " a fragment of an alabaster vase inscribed with a funerary text for the chantress of Amun and King's Wife Mutnodjmet, as well as pieces of a statuette of her found here ... The funerary vase in particular, since it bears her name and titles would hardly have been used for the burial of some other person.

Two alabaster vase fragments inscribed with his name were found at Nippur where, according to the Sumerian Tummal Chronicle, he is said to have built the first temple.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

An alabaster statue of Isis from the 3rd century BCE, found in Ohrid, in the Republic of Macedonia, is depicted on the obverse of the Macedonian 10 denars banknote, issued in 1996.

There, alabaster tubs and other bath fittings were found, along with a sophisticated twin plumbing system to transport hot and cold water separately.

Furthermore several alabaster and travertine fragments of seated statues, which were found by George Reisner during his excavations at Giza, were once inscribed with Khufu's full royal titulary, today the complete or partial preserved cartouches with the name Khufu or Khnum-Khuf are left over.

This theory is promoted by findings such as alabaster vessels with Khufu's name found at Koptos, the pilgrimage destination of Wadi Hammamat travellers.

The cliffs between Watchet and Blue Anchor show a distinct pale, greenish blue colour, resulting from the coloured alabaster found there.

One of the four Egyptian alabaster canopic jars found in KV55, depicting what is thought to be the likeness of Queen Kiya.

* 15th Century Nottingham alabaster carvings, including those found in 1779 at St. Peter's Church, Flawford

There are several types of alabaster found at the site, including pink, white, and the rare black alabaster.

This black alabaster can be found in only three veins in the world, one each in Oklahoma, Italy and China.

The massive decorated western tower contains a peal of eight bells, four of which were cast in 1628, and in the north aisle can be found a badly defaced alabaster effigy of the knight, Sir John Talbot, who died in 1365.

In fact, alabaster vessels and earthen jars with black ink inscriptions with very similar font design showing Nynetjer's name were found in Periben's tomb.

The sarcophagus in the midst of the chamber is made of finest alabaster and shows an unusual feature: its opening lies at the front side and is sealed by a sliding door, which was still plastered with mortar when the sarcophagus was found.

In 1903 an alabaster pavement was found in the court of the 7th Pylon, and beneath it a shaft leading to a large hoard of almost 17, 000 statues, with every part of the dig drawn, recorded and photographed.

During excavations, more than 7, 000 objects were found, mostly offerings including effigies, clay pots in the image of Tlaloc, skeletons of turtles, frogs, crocodiles, and fish, snail shells, coral, some gold, alabaster, Mixtec figurines, ceramic urns from Veracruz, masks from what is now Guerrero state, copper rattles, decorated skulls and knives of obsidian and flint.

If twenty alabaster vases were found in a tomb, he would see to it that half were smashed to bring up their price.

Peribsen ´ s serekh name was found pressed on earthen jar seals made of clay and mud and in inscriptions on vessels made of alabaster, sandstone, porphyry and black schist.

The evidence that the royal Tanite tomb belonged to Takelot I was suggested long ago by the presence of grave goods found within the burial which mentioned his known parents: " namely a Gold Bracelet ( Cairo JE 72199 ) and an alabaster Jar ( Cairo JE 86962 ) of Osorkon I, and a Ushabti figure of Queen Tashedkhons.

This alabaster monument was found in an old vault under the floor of the chancel in 1865 and restored to its position in the church.

The Northern and Uncompahgre Ute were the only group of Indians known to create ceremonial pipes out of salmon alabaster, as well as a rare black pipestone found only in the creeks that border the southeastern slopes of the Uinta Mountains in Utah and Colorado.

He thought he had found an intact burial, as the seals of the alabaster sarcophagus were undamaged, and funerary wreaths lay atop the sarcophagus.

His tomb, imported from Paris, was extremely elaborate, carved from gilded alabaster.

Atop the tomb chest lie detailed alabaster effigies of the King and Queen, crowned and dressed in their ceremonial robes.

Her tomb originally boasted an alabaster memorial, which was deliberately destroyed during extensions to the abbey in the reign of her grandson, Henry VII.

Her tomb, placed on the south side of the Chapel of Edward the Confessor, displays her alabaster effigy which was executed by sculptor Jean de Liège.

Margaret and both her husbands are buried together in a carved alabaster tomb in Canterbury Cathedral that shows her lying between the two of them.

He is buried in an alabaster tomb in the north aisle.

He is buried in a spectacular painted alabaster tomb in the church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham.

Photograph of an alabaster cosmetic jar topped with a lioness, representing Bast, a burial artifact from the tomb of Tutankhamun circa 1323 BC-Cairo Museum

Some of the most important royal sepulchres have alabaster statues that lie over the tomb.

There is an alabaster effigy of the founder of the college, Sir Hugh Calveley, other effigies, and a 17th-century tomb.

There is a recumbent statue of Henry III over the tomb, made in polychrome alabaster.

Neville died on 21 October 1425, and a fine alabaster tomb was erected to his memory in St. Mary's Staindrop Church, near Raby Castle, where his effigy in armour between his two wives remains the finest sepulchral monument in the north of England.

Image: KV55-CanopicJar-AmarnaQueen-CloseUp MetropolitanMuseum. png | Close-up of an Egyptian alabaster canopic jar thought to depict a likeness of Kiya, from tomb KV55-on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The tomb consists of a slab of alabaster mounted in gilded bronze.

In the chapel of St. Mary's Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of nearby Hergest Court, slain at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and his wife, Elen Gethin.

The earl died on 21 October 1425, and a fine alabaster tomb was erected to his memory in Staindrop church close by Raby Castle.

The mutilated white alabaster effigy, believed to be that of Edward of Middleham, in the church at Sheriff Hutton is not a tomb but a cenotaph ( i. e. it is empty ).

Life-size tomb effigies in stone or alabaster became popular for the wealthy, and grand multi-level tombs evolved, with the Scaliger Tombs of Verona so large they had to be moved outside the church.

The north choir aisle of Wirksworth church is dominated by a far more ostentatious monument, a large ornate alabaster chest tomb, a memorial to Ralph Gell of Hopton, who died in 1563.

His tomb is of alabaster and was created by Richard Parker of Burton on Trent with John Lupton ( rough mason ) and his father, over a period of six days, strengthening the floor supports to take the weight of the tomb.

His tomb, in the centre of the chancel next to that of his father, is of alabaster and considered unique.

In the chancel is a further tomb to John Copledike who died in 1585 and his wife who died 1582, and an alabaster memorial to Francis Copuldyck and his wife and family dated 1599.