'Ointment' in the Bible

And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head;

and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, 'For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?