Slate

This rock is gray in color and is usually used as shingles and in flooring.

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
(none)	(none)	1935,0112.28	(none)	(none)
12326	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell inlay. Soldier wearing a helmet and carrying a battle-axe. Hair done up in a chignon at back of head protruding beyond helmet: over left shoulder clothing in shape of a fleece, and under chin a beard; fleece & beard indicated by undulating lines. Head in profile, torso full face. All the incisions originally had black paint. Figure missing below waist- this must have been of some other material. This was found in conjunction with large pieces of slate that had evidently formed the framework to contain shell carvings, cf. Kish plaques. With the slate framework was found a large triangular piece of mother of pearl.
14438	31-16-492	(none)	(none)	Stone roundel. Dark grey slate or schist. Flat below, above a shallow truncated cone: small hole through centre. (chipped at edge).
18487	(none)	1933,1013.145	(none)	Bowl. [Type 27]. [drawing 2:5]
8072	(none)	(none)	B16806	Amulet of grey slate in form of a bird. [drawing 1:1]
818	(none)	1923,1110.62	(none)	Stone bowl of grey fine-grained slatey stone. Broken, but virtually complete. Sides straight, base flat.