'Ointment' in the Bible

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.