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Travertine/Calcite
A coarsely crystalline, calcium carbonate rock which is usually translucent and often banded. It is the material often referred as alabaster in Egyptology.
Egyptian names: Ss, bit
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Aston/Harrell/Shaw
2000: 59-60
Aston 1994: 42-47