Ambassador Oscagne arrived about fifteen minutes later bearing an alabaster box on a blue velvet cushion.
Some stories, such as that of "Legion" in Mark 5:9 (paralleling Polyphemus ) and that of the woman with an alabaster box of ointment in Mark 14:3-9 (paralleling Eurycleia ), may be based on Homer's Odyssey according to Dennis R. MacDonald and Richard Carrier.
She took the communal purse out of her cloak and from it she pulled a small alabaster box, the sort that was used to store the precious ointments that women used to anoint the bodies of the dead at burial.
He held out his hand and Judas slammed the alabaster box into it, then stormed out of the house.
Antesiodorus scattered the contents of a little alabaster box in a broad arc toward the dogs.
And she had a son who was a druggist, to whom she said, "Take heed thou sell not this alabaster box of spikenard-ointment, although thou shouldst be offered three hundred pence for it."
Mr. Qurei gave the Israeli Speaker a carved alabaster box inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
You visit it through a kind of alabaster box - masses of ponderous masonry and drains and all that kind of Roman business.
LS Collection carries a $20 alabaster box as well as a $13,500 set of 12 sterling silver champagne flutes with a matching cooler.