Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. inorganic material
7. mineral
8. serpentine (mineral)

Anotations

Scope note:

A type of serpentine that is soft, coarse-grained, with a dull, waxy color. Antigorite was used in Egypt in the Pharaonic period for small vessels, amulets, and scarabs. It is named after the community of Antigorio, Italy, site of the specimen that was first described.