. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . eep pass es-Sufdh, by which the final step is madefrom the desert to the level of the actual land ofPalestine. (Zephatii.) Robinson (ii. 120) identifiesAkrabbirn with the line of chalk cliffs, seven oreight miles long, and from fifty to one hundred andfifty feet high, which cross the Arabah in an irreg-ular curve from N. W. to S. E., six or eight miles 5. of the Dead Sea. Akrabbim must not be con-founded with Akrabattene, a district or toparchy,under the Romans, between Neapolis and Jericho(Jos. B. J. ii. 12, § 4, &c.; Rbn. iii. 296). Arbat- TI3. Ala
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . eep pass es-Sufdh, by which the final step is madefrom the desert to the level of the actual land ofPalestine. (Zephatii.) Robinson (ii. 120) identifiesAkrabbirn with the line of chalk cliffs, seven oreight miles long, and from fifty to one hundred andfifty feet high, which cross the Arabah in an irreg-ular curve from N. W. to S. E., six or eight miles 5. of the Dead Sea. Akrabbim must not be con-founded with Akrabattene, a district or toparchy,under the Romans, between Neapolis and Jericho(Jos. B. J. ii. 12, § 4, &c.; Rbn. iii. 296). Arbat- TI3. Ala-bas-ter (Gr. alabastron or alabastros, original-ly [so Stephanus] the name of the vessels, of pecu-liar shape [see cut], in which ointments were kept,hence applied to the material of which the vesselswere commonly made) occurs in the N. T. only inthe notices of the alabaster-box of ointment withwhich a woman anointed our Lord when he sat atmeat (Mat. xxvi. 7; Mk. xiv. 3; Lk. vii. 37; MaryMagdalene). The modern alabaster includes both. Alabaster Vessels.—From the British Museum. The inscription on tbecentre vessel denotes the quantity it holds. a granular variety of gypsum and the oriental ala-baster. Gypsum is a hydrous sulphate of lime, andforms, when calcined and ground, the well-known plaster of Paris. The oriental alabaster, so muchvalued on account of its translucency, and for itsvariety of colored streakings, red, yellow, gray, &c.,is a carbonate of lime, known in mineralogy as sta-lagmite. The ancient alabaster principally, if notsolely = the oriental alabaster (Dana). Both thesekinds of alabaster, but especially the latter, are andhave been long used for various ornamental pur-poses, such as in the fabrication of vases, boxes, & ancients considered alabaster (carbonate oflime) the best material in which to preserve theirointments. Unguents, says Pliny, keep bestin alabaster. In Mk. xiv. 3, the woman whobrought the alabaster-box of ointment of spike-nard is said
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