steatite
IPA: stˈitaɪt
noun
- (mineralogy) soapstone (often synonymous; more information at soapstone § Terminology).
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Examples of "steatite" in Sentences
- Steatite is not found in the local area.
- The term steatite is sometimes used for soapstone.
- Solid forms of talc are known as steatite or soapstone.
- I think the steatite article should be merged with this one.
- Stone steatite and clay figurines with spread arms are common.
- Most of the scarabs are made of steatite painted blue or green.
- It was very famous for micro cylindrical beads of steatite chlorite .
- Typical burial goods included bone awls, steatite bowls, and animal teeth.
- Steatite served as raw material for these, sometimes treated with tempering.
- The bowl was of soft stone, apparently steatite, which, when fresh, is easily fashioned with a knife.
- And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from
- Alabaster bowls, more than a dozen steatite vessels, and fragments of ostrich eggshell containers were also found.
- The rivers, plains, and nearby mountains offered abundant wild animals, fish, and timber, and raw materials such as steatite (talc) and copper.
- Also of Egyptian manufacture is the beautiful glazed steatite scarab inscribed with a knot design typical of the late Middle Kingdom (mid to late Dynasty 13) unearthed on the very first day of the 2001 excavations.
- Nearby excavations have also yielded some noteworthy finds: a terra-cotta house model probably used as a bird cage and a two-by-two-inch steatite Harappan Phase seal carved with a unicorn motif and 13 script signs.
- A table bar over which the dewatering wire cloth of a paper making machine travels is formed of extruded steatite or the like whose leading edge is recessed to receive a ceramic oxide element which renders the table bar abrasion resistant.
- In addition to a Bronze Age steatite seal, schist reliefs, and stucco heads, this donation included four fragments of a large Bronze Age silver bowl combining Indian and Mesopotamian stylistic characteristics in depicting a frieze of bulls.
- Sand is commonly met with at the depth of three or four fathoms, and beneath this a stratum of napal or steatite, which is considered as a sign that the metal is near; but the least fallible mark is a red stone, called batu kawi, lying in detached pieces.
- Visitors may recognize other hallmark Minoan artifacts in the show: clay tablets inscribed with the still-undeciphered Linear A writing, a bull's head rhyton carved from chlorite with gilded horns, and the "Chieftain's Cup," a carved steatite conical cup with processional scene (see photo gallery).