Egyptian Alabaster Dish - 5.5" - Made in Egypt Earrings Gold Plated Sterling Silver

Gold Plated Sterling Silver

This transparent green glass vase was handblown

Each cartouche is stamped (often in two places) with the Egyptian government's hallmark certifying the metal content

a series of islands

a polishing cloth

Egyptian Alabaster Dish - 5.5" - Made in Egypt Earrings Gold Plated Sterling SilverAncient pharaohs prized fine objects rendered in alabaster, deeming them indispensable on earth and in the afterlife. Oriental Alabaster, which is a much harder stone, similar to marble, and which today is only used for machine made products. Egyptologists refer to "Oriental alabaster" (marble) as alabaster, and it was this material that was extensively used by the Egyptians in sarcophagi, in the linings of tombs, in the walls and ceilings of temples,