Alabaster vs Bastet - What's the difference?
alabaster | bastet |
A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
* c. 1596 , ,
* 1867 '', ''Paradiso ,
*:: But like a radiant fillet ran along
*:: So that fire seemed it behind alabaster .
* 1915 , The New York Times , "
(historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
Made of alabaster
Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.
(Egyptian mythology) The goddess of the sun and the moon, of cats, and Lower Egypt; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah, often depicted as having a she-cat's head.
As a noun alabaster
is alabaster.As a proper noun bastet is
(egyptian mythology) the goddess of the sun and the moon, of cats, and lower egypt; one of the "eyes / daughters of ra", the consort of ptah, often depicted as having a she-cat's head.alabaster
English
(wikipedia alabaster)Alternative forms
* alabastre (obsolete) * alablaster (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene I, lines 89-90
- Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
- Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ?
Canto XV, lines 22-23] (translated by [[w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow])
- Nor was the flame dissevered from its ribbon
Egyptian Antiquities for Metropolitan" (pdf), 15 May
- One of the striking relics found at the tomb, was a Canopic portrait head of Queen Tii, made entirely of alabaster except the eyes and eyebrows, which were inlaid lapis lazuli and osidian.
Adjective
(-)- The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.
- An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.
Quotations
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece", lines 418-420 *: With more than admiration he admir’d *:: Her azure veins, her alabaster skin, *:: Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin. * 1611 , King James Version of the Bible, Mark 14:3 *: And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. * before 1887 , Emily Dickinson, "
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers" *: Safe in their alabaster chambers *: Untouched by morning, untouched by noon *: Sleep the meek members of the resurrection, *: Rafters of satin, and roof of stone. * 1895 , Katherine Lee Bates, "" *: Thy alabaster cities gleam *: Undimmed by human tears! *