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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

026398; -1.238351 Catpund is a quarry site in Shetland, Scotland, where steatite vessels were cut from the rock from prehistory onwards. The quarrying marks...

(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...

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...

City) String of beads; 3300–3100 BC; carnelian, garnet, quartz and glazed steatite; length: 20.5 centimetres (8.1 in); by Naqada III culture Metropolitan...

ISBN 9780300096989, OCLC 876738221 Byzantine icons in steatite (1985) OCLC 888670192 Steatite carvings of the middle Byzantine Period (1977) OCLC 633633083...

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)...

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...

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

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...

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...

Flavour Crisps. Hedgehog amulet from Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18. Steatite. Cleveland Museum of Art. 1391 BCE to 1353 BCE Ceramic rhyton in the form...

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

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

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

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...

State Plc, operations have continued and grown as part of Steatite Ltd under the Steatite antennas name. Some of their products include:- Antenna Positioners...

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