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Historical Archive: Schist, Shale, and Slate eyes prob. from a guardian lion at Mari, temple of the lions, limestone and schist, late 3rd millennium BCE, Louvre AO 19504, SO 19505 Military saints with spears and shields, Byzantine schist icon, 11th-13th c., Cluny Cl.21602 icon: St. Conon of Naso?, slate or shale, 12th-13th c. Novgorod?, MSHM St. Demetrios, stone (shale/schist?), late 12th-early 13th c., Byzantine? Novgorod AM Virgin and Child, stone (shale/schist?)/silver, 14th c., Novgorod AM