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plural alabastrons or alabastra
A kind of ancient pottery vase used for holding oils, and originally made from alabaster. quotations examples
The discovery, in an early deposit near the Northern Bath, in company with the serpentine vases described above, of the lid of an alabastron with the cartouche of the Hyksos king Khyan.
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 67