This is typical of the noble Latin inscriptions that appear in Renaissance and Baroque paintings - most famously Nicolas Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds, usually known after the inscription a group of rustics are reading on an ancient funeral slab: ET IN ARCADIA EGO.
An ancient carved slab of slate depicting an animal very similar to the blue wildebeest has been discovered.
Black rectangular objects have been made throughout history, from the ancient Egyptian stone slabs known as stelae onward.
Hebrew inscriptions on stone slabs, ancient scripts on copper plates and great scrolls of the Old Testament are preserved here.
Nimrud, Iraq -- A priceless, ancient carved stone slab is demolished by Islamic State militants on April 11 , 2015
"In Egypt you need a project that everyone can believe in, a national project," Dr. Hawass said, standing beside a marvel of ancient craftsmanship, two massive slabs of red granite, carved with simple hand tools and hauled hundreds of miles north from the rocky terrain of Luxor to a small limestone pyramid here just outside of modern Cairo "We have to learn from ancient Egypt".
Unlike Cadillac Ranch, that rectilinear riot of colors and upended tailfins near Interstate 40, outside of Amarillo, Tex., Carhenge, a similar automotive sculpture inspired by the ancient grouping of stone slabs in Britain, is near no significant tourist or transit route.
Its top is a slab of ancient green marble from the Red Sea, a type known as breccia universale because it is composed of fragments of colorful porphyritic and granite stones.
The smoke was so dense that it enveloped a huge, brooding building built like an ancient tomb, with vast slab sides leaning inward, that is said to be the office and home of Tariq Aziz, the No. 4 man in Mr. Hussein's hierarchy.
The villa's basalt slabs, formed from ancient volcanic activity, emerge organically from the cliff and dramatically frame the distant mountains.
