Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a talc-schist, which is a type of metamorphic rock. It is composed largely of the magnesium-rich mineral...

seal the adjective "so-called" sometimes applied to "Pashupati"), is a steatite seal which was uncovered in Mohenjo-daro, now in modern day Pakistan, a...

2600–1900 BC; burnt steatite; 3.8 × 3.8 × 1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Seal with two-horned bull and inscription; 2010 BC; steatite; overall: 3.2 x 3...

smoking pipe traditionally made of either clay or a soft stone (such as steatite or catlinite). It was used popularly in India in the eighteenth century...

Priest-King, in Pakistan often King-Priest, is a small male figure sculpted in steatite found during the excavation of the ruined Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro...

green and then fired. The most common stone used for scarabs was a form of steatite, a soft stone that becomes hard when fired (forming enstatite), or porcelain...

to the Magdalenian. Such figurines were carved from soft stone (such as steatite, calcite or limestone), bone or ivory, or formed of clay and fired. The...

The "Priest King" sculpture is carved from steatite....

princely dhoti and the royal turban. The Bimaran casket was kept in a steatite box, with inscriptions stating that it contained some relics of the Buddha...

hole before stringing them. Wooden pump drills with quartz drill bits and steatite weights were used to drill the shells. The unfinished beads would be strung...

An Egyptian glazed steatite profile head of an Asiatic 1540-1190 BCE...

the early statues are small and made of more local stones (limestone, steatite and redstone); later, when wide-ranging trade-connections had been established...

especially the rhyton cup, were also produced in soft stones such as steatite, but there was almost no overlap with metal vessels. The finest achievements...

exquisite and obscure artefacts unearthed to date are the small, square steatite (soapstone) seals engraved with human or animal motifs. A large number...

refractory material. Silicon nitride (Si3N4) is used as an abrasive powder. Steatite (magnesium silicates) is used as an electrical insulator. Titanium carbide...

transplanted from Virginia. There are mineral reserves of gold, iron, coal, steatite, fluorite, and molybdenum, as well as marble and limestone in the northern...

belt plaques made of gold and bronze, with other versions in jade and steatite.[citation needed] An elite burial near Stuttgart, Germany, dated to the...

scarabs. Steatite (also known as soapstone) is a mineral of the chlorite family; it has the great advantage of being very easy to work. Steatite amulets...

belt-plaques made of gold or bronze, and created their own versions in jade and steatite. Following their expulsion by the Yuezhi, some Saka may also have migrated...

Art. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-58839-043-1. Square-shaped Indus seals of fired steatite have been found at a few sites in Mesopotamia. Cotterell, Arthur (2011)...

of Turkey, Oman, and the Middle East. China is the key world talc and steatite-producing country with an output of about 2.2M tonnes(2016), which accounts...

(Khamwaset, Kha-em-was), son of Ramesses II. The head is missing. Black steatite. 19th Dynasty. From Egypt. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London...

exchange networks. Hopewell communities traded finished goods, such as steatite platform pipes, far and wide; they have been found among grave goods in...

brick masonry. The offering in Tumulus-1 consisted of one full necklace of steatite stringed in a copper wire with hooks for interlocking, solid gold bangle...

conductivity. 1. Steatite Ingredients Being Weighed 2. Steatite Granulation Process 3. Steatite Chip Pressing 4. High Temperature Firing of Steatite Chip 5. Beckman...

Blue glazed steatite scarab in a gold mount, with the cartouche of Hyksos ruler Khyan: - "Son of Ra, Khyan, living forever!"...

enamel icon Greek Byzantine bas-relief of Saint George and the Dragon (steatite), 12th century Monumental vita icon at Sinai, first half of the 13th century...

Other raw materials can include feldspar, ball clay, glass, bone ash, steatite, quartz, petuntse and alabaster. The clays used are often described as...

drinks. The art works of Fang people, particularly from wood, iron and steatite, are regionally famous. Their wooden masks and idol carvings are on display...

bas-relief with goddess Ninsun; 2255–2040 BC; steatite; height: 14 cm; Louvre Statue of Gudea O; circa 2100 BC; steatite; height: 0.63 m; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek...