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Carbuncle

Objects · Colors & materials · Myth & story

A named medieval glowing red gem of bestiary and later jewelry speech. Not ruby as identity, and not garnet as a dump.

  • Carbuncle is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats carbuncle among glowing red stones of marvel and remedy. A Roman-era pharmacological use of carbuncle, not garnet as a modern species dump and not ruby alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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