Alabaster
A fine-grained, often translucent gypsum used as decorative stone; historical oriental alabaster can denote carbonate stone.
How it connects
In other taxonomies
- AlabasterUniclass, Ma_40_84_79_03nearly the same
- alabaster (mineral)Getty AAT, 300011101nearly the same
- alabasterWikidata, Q143447nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
The word “alabaster”
2 meanings
- AlabasterMaterial, this termNo default
- alabasterColorScope named colorNo default
Record
- Broader
- Stone
- Provenance
- referencedhttps://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/memoirs/docs/B06070.html, read 30 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/alabasterKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderStoneoutgoing
- narrowerStoneincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Stoneoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Mineraloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Basaltoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Graniteoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Limestoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Marbleoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Onyxoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Quartziteoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Sandstoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Slateoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Soapstoneoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_40_84_79_03 | Alabaster | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300011101 | alabaster (mineral) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q143447 | alabaster | nearly the same |