Slab Collection

Schoolboys sitting on The Table Rock, Glyder Fach, Snowdon, North Wales Date: circa 1930s

Polished slab of labradorite
Labradorite (calcium sodium aluminum silicate) can seem dull and grey until the light hits correctly, then an array of colours can be observed glowing on the surface

Lithographic printing-press 1876
Printer and his apprentice, putting on the ink on the pre-made etched stone. Date: 1876

Nottingham Market Square in 1927

Nottingham Market Square laying tram tracks in 1929

Market Place, Nottingham

Long Row, Nottingham

Market Square, Nottingham, early 1900s

Passage of Theores. Detail of the Three Graces, c. 470 BC. Relief. Thasian marble. From Thasos, Greece. Louvre Museum. Paris, France. Date: 2014

4th Century Bc Acheron Aeneid Allegoric Allegorical
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Angel Trio Date: 1859

Woman serving Roskillys Cornish Clotted Cream. Date: circa 1980s

Neo-Hittite hieroglyphic Inscription from Carchemish, Syria
Hieroglyphic inscription, Neo-Hittite, c9th century BC. A large relief carving on a basalt slab found near Aleppo, Syria - the Carchemish (Karkemish) site

Tombstone of Neferseshempepy. Egypt
Tombstone of Neferseshempepy, depicted with a scepter and staff with a hieroglyphic inscription. Limestone. 2150 BC. Early Dynastic or Old Kingdom. From Dendera. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Antelope engraved on a stone plaque. Neolithic. National Arc
Antelope engraved on a stone plaque. Saguia El Hamra. Western Sahara. Neolithic. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain

Byzantine relief decorated with crosses. Marble slab. Greece
BYZANTINE ART. GREECE. Marble slab relief decorated with crosses. Dated in XI century. It comes from Athens. Byzantine Museum. Athens

Byzantine relief. Marble slab with a lion devouring a deer
BYZANTINE ART. GREECE. Marble slab with a relief representing a lion devouring a deer. Dated from the end of the tenth century and early eleventh century. It comes from Athens. Byzantine Museum

Tsar Bell, Kremlin complex, Moscow, Russia
The Tsar Bell, also known as the Queen of Bells, Tsarsky Kolokol or Royal Bell, on display in the Kremlin complex, Moscow, Russia

A colouorful display of local fresh fish, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Slab With Runes and Irish, Mahee Island - a view of a fragment of inscribed stone, excavated 1922. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Mahee Island). Date: circa early 1900s

Christian tombstone written in Greek. Marble, 6th century AD. Beersheda district. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

Slab in N. Chamber, Cloghanmor, Glen Malinmore - a view looking down on the stone network. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal). Date: circa early 1900s

Sculptured Grave Slab, Kells - an ornate and inscribed grave slab. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Meath: Kells). Date: circa early 1900s

Grave Slab, Movilla, Newtownards - an inscribed stone. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Newtownards). Date: circa early 1900s

Inscribed Grave Slab, Movilla Abbey. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Newtownards). Date: circa early 1900s

Thracian culture. Marble funerary relief. Family
Thracian culture. Marble funerary relief depicting a family of Macedonia. Dated first half of the third century A.D. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Culture Thrace. Marble funerary relief depicting a hracian h
Culture Thrace. Marble funerary relief depicting a thracian horseman. Dated in the second and third centuries A.D. It comes from Macedonia. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Figure of a horse. Terracotta. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Slab of wall covering with a winged Nike. Roman. 1st c. BC-1s
Slab of wall covering with a winged Nike. Roman. Late 1st century BC-early 1st century AD. Moulded terracotta. From Tarragona (?). Episcopal Museum of Vic. Catalonia. Spain

Bas relief Assyrian Genie. 9th century BC. Archeological Mus
Chaldean Assyrian relief sculpture slab from the northwest palace of King Ashurnasirpal II of a Genie standing. 881-859 BC. from Nimrud. Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Turkey

Hitite slabs with hieroglyphic inscription about the activit
Slabs with hieroglyphic inscription about the activities of King Urhilina and his son. Detail. Basalt. Late Hitite Period. 9th century BC. From Hama (Syria). Archaeological Museum

Rome. Pyramid of Cestius
Italy. Rome. Pyramid of Cestius. 12 BC

Apollo. Relief. Temple of Serapis. Miletus
Fragment of the coffered ceiling slab of the porch with relief depicting god Apollo with archaistic bulging curly hair-style. From the Temple of Sarapis. Marble. 200 AD. Miletus. Pergamon Museum

Limestones false door of Ptahshepses. Egypt
Limestone false door of Ptahshepses. The slabs paneled on both sides of the door are inscribed with the biography of Ptahshepses mentioning his birth and his marriage to Princess Khamaat. 2400 BC

Marble slab decorated with geometric designs and filigree. C
Dating from the 12th century. Provenance unknown. Old Fortress Museum. Corfu. Ionian Islands. Greece

Marble slab with funerary inscription in greek. Dated in the year 1235. Byzantine Museum. Athens. Greece

Walla Brook Bridge, a single massive slab of stone across a stream. Date: 1905

Commercial Fish Preparation
Fishmonger cutting fillets of fish on slab with knife, newspapers hanging behind his head Date: 1930s

Livingstones Grave
Sightseers respectfully examine the slab marking the grave of DAVID LIVINGSTONE, Scottish missionary and traveller, whose body was brought here from Africa. Date: 1873

Jade
A block of jade measuring more than a metre across and weighing over half a tonne

Pallasite slab
The Esquel pallasite, composed of gem-quality olivine crystals embedded in metal. Pallasites are perhaps the most beautiful of all meteorites. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Columber kargi

Camarotoechi, brachiopod
Shown here is a slab containing many Silurian brachiopods. Brachiopods belong to their own phylum (Brachiopoda). General characteristics include a pair of protective shells

Chalcedony
Polished slab of chalcedony with radiating structure. Chalcedony or agate is a variety of cryptocrystalline quartz (silicon dioxide)

British marble specimens

Butterfly stone Hu-die-shih trilobites
Trilobite Drepanura; inferred Upper Cambrian, Shantung Province, China. Mounted slab from Keeper?s Meeting Room

Opal
Fire opal in a matrix slab of alunite from Guatemala. Opals are not truely crystalline and are therefore mineraloids. They comprise of (hydrated silica glass)

Slab of the Lueders meteorite
A slab of the IAB iron meteorite Lueders showing the size, shapes and distribution of silicate inclusions. The slab is about 10cm wide

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