'Ointment' in the Bible

While He was in Bethany [as a guest] at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster vial of very costly and precious perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured the perfume over His head.

But there were some who were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted?