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Examples of steatite
steatite
Chinese jade and steatite plaques, in the Scythian-style animal art of the steppes.
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Names also used in this context are agalmatolite, steatite, pyrophyllite and pinite.
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Four years later, Salomon Reinach published a group of steatite figurines from the caves of Balzi Rossi.
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Other raw materials can include feldspar, ball clay, glass, bone ash, steatite, quartz, petuntse and alabaster.
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At the Palace of Knossos, archaeological recovery has included a magnificent libation table made of steatite.
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The term steatite is sometimes used for soapstone.
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Dated to LM IA and following also are conical rhyta, or drinking cups, in steatite and also imitated in ceramic.
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From the Mendi district many curious steatite figures which had been buried have been recovered and are exhibited in the British Museum.
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This style is particularly reflected in the rectangular belt plaques made of gold and bronze with alternate versions in jade and steatite.
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- Soapstone: a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments
- Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a metamorphic rock, a talc-schist. It is largely composed of the mineral talc and is thus rich in magnesium. ...
- Soapstone
- (15) -- a variety of talc, commonly of a gray or grayish-green color, with a soapy feel (Oxford Dict.)
- A soft gray-green or brown talc which was worked into smoking pipes and bowls by grinding and polishing; also known as "soapstone".
- A mineral substance composed mostly of various forms of magnesium silicate, e.g., (Mg3Si4O11 ^. H2O).
- Soapstone or talc; a soft gray to green stone used as a carving medium.
- A soft, easily worked stone found in many localities in Arizona. The rock is a form of talc and is commonly associated with serpentine.
- A grayish-green or brownish type of soapstone quarried for the purpose of manufacturing bowls, pipes and ornaments. The soapstone is carveable and shapeable which lends itself to use especially before the invention of pottery.
