steatite
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of steatite
1595–1605; < Latin steatītēs < Greek steat- (stem of stéar ) fat, tallow + -ītēs -ite 1
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An 8th century circular box made of steatite with no decoration other than incised circles bears witness to the impact of east Iranian art on China under the Tang dynasty.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2011
Porcelain beads are picked up, and a stone idol has been found, as also tubes of lead, blue steatite, syphon-like, drilled, twelve inches long, and finely polished.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
Rude attempt at carving a human face, steatite.
From American Antiquities Auction Catalogue, January 8, 1898 by Wm. B. Norman
No. 29, in green steatite, from a stairway tomb.
From El Kab by James Edward Quibell
Pipe of gray, indurated steatite, of modern Cherokee manufacture.
From Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 by William Henry Holmes
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