In 1495 Henry VII paid £ 50 for a marble and alabaster monument.

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.

On the S wall of the Shrewbury Chapel is the alabaster monument to the SixthEarl of Shrewsbury with its architectural surround, armored effigy, and Latin inscription.

* He cleared the sands around the Sphinx down to the bare rock, and in the process discovered the famous granite and alabaster monument, the " Temple of the Sphinx ".

The pen held in the hand of his alabaster monument is renewed annually by the Lord Mayor of London.

He has a particularly fine alabaster effigy and monument against the north wall of the north aisle ( Chichester Chapel ) in Eggesford Church, Devon, to the immediate west of which stood his manor house, Eggesford House, demolished in 1824.

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 monument at Broad Hinton is a standing alabaster statue, wearing armour and holding the metal staff of a standard.

In the south chapel is a strange wall monument of carved and painted alabaster, showing a knight in armour kneeling between his two wives and eleven children.

The church contains an alabaster monument to Sir Craig Wilson, as well as the Albrighton Mace donated to the village in 1663, by Lady Mary Talbot.

Christian III's alabaster, Rouge Belge and Noir Belge monument was created 1574-75 by Antwerpian sculptor Cornelis Floris.

When the arsenal burned in 1647, all that remained of the monument was the grand sandstone crucifix and a head carved from alabaster.

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.

All that was left were some broken alabaster vases, pottery and charcoal.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was at this point noted for having black hair which flowed to his shoulders, large blue eyes, alabaster coloured skin and a slight Roman nose.

He had two large alabaster urns transported from Pergamon and placed on two sides of the nave in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and a large wax candle dressed in tin which was donated by him to the Rila monastery in Bulgaria is on display in the monastery museum.

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

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.

All the monuments and altars were destroyed when the old church was demolished, except the high altar which is of alabaster, in the Gothic style, and was given early in the fifteen century by D. Bernat Despujol.

Within the Church of St. Edward is an alabaster reredos inset with carvings in white marble, designed by the famous Victorian architect George Edmund Street R. A., which was presented by Lord Eldon in 1876.

Later, the composition of the Meissen hard paste was changed and the alabaster was replaced by feldspar and quartz, allowing the pieces to be fired at lower temperatures.

These artifacts ranged from a decorated chest, which was most likely used as a closet or suitcase, two ivory and gold bracelets, necklaces, and other decorative jewelry, to alabaster vases and flasks.

In Ancient Egypt, a sarcophagus formed the external layer of protection for a royal mummy, with several layers of coffins nested within, and was often carved out of alabaster.

A funeral service was held at Westbury-on-Trym, where a very high quality sculpted alabaster effigy of him was placed, dressed in clerical attire.

On its arrival at the museum, the alabaster was pure white and inlaid with blue copper sulphate.

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.

She was photographed by Adolf de Meyer, Edward Steichen, and Gertrude Käsebier, sculpted in alabaster by Malvina Hoffman, and painted by Giovanni Boldini and John Singer Sargent, among others.

A brilliant entrance from the central courtyard was leading to the royal apartments in the north part of the palace, which they had view to the tops of Psiloritis, while for their construction had been used alabaster among other materials.

As his practice prospered, Soane was able to collect objects worthy of the British Museum, including the alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I, covered in Egyptian hieroglyphs, discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, bought on the 12 May 1824 for £ 2000 ( Soane's most expensive art work ).

As his practice prospered, Soane was able to collect objects worthy of the British Museum, including the alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I.

# And she had a son who was a druggist, to whom she said, " Take heed thou sell not this alabaster box of spikenard-ointment, although thou shouldst be offered three hundred pence for it.

Copper and turquoise were mined at Wadi Maghareh in the Sinai, and alabaster was quarried from Hatnub.

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.

An alabaster vase found in the tomb, symbolizing the union of Lower Egypt | Lower and Upper Egypt | Upper Egypt.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.