Definitionn. a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel
Last update: July 20, 2015
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Late Minoan art in its finest aspect is best illustrated by the animated ivory figures, wall paintings, and gesso duro reliefs at Cnossus, by the painted stucco designs at Hagia Triada, and the steatite vases found on the same site with zones in reliefs exhibiting life-like scenes of warriors, toreadors, gladiators, wrestlers and pugilists, and of a festal throng perhaps representing a kind of " harvest home." [Please select]
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One of them seized it, and drew forth its contents--which proved to be _a pipe-head of the red clay-stone_--the celebrated steatite. [Please select]
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The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar. [Please select]
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They are principally composed of various starches, prepared from wheat, potatoes, and various nuts, mixed more or less with powdered talc--of Haüy, steatite (soap-stone), French chalk, oxide of bismuth, and oxide of zinc, &c. [Please select]
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123) represents a tube of steatite, upon which is carved, as is stated, "in high relief this figure of an owl, attached with its back to the tube." [Please select]
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