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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 ****stan
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 ****stan, a...
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smoking pipe
traditionally made of
either clay or a soft
stone (such as
steatite or catlinite). It was used po****rly in
India in the
eighteenth century...
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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...
- 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...
- The "Priest King"
sculpture is
carved from
steatite....
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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...
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String of beads; 3300–3100 BC; carnelian, garnet,
quartz and
glazed steatite; length: 20.5
centimetres (8.1 in); by
Naqada III
culture Metropolitan...
