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Glossopetra

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A named tongue-stone of Pliny’s pharmacy, later recognized as fossil shark-tooth, kept against poison and storm. Not saligrama, and not generic stone.

Also known as Tongue-stone

  • Glossopetra is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats glossopetra, the tongue-stone, among mineral remedies and protective stones. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the fossil-tooth stone, not aetites and not a modern fossil-shop dump.

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

    used in · sourced · documented

Roman religion

  • Glossopetra appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats glossopetra among tongue-stones of mineral encyclopedia speech beyond pharmacy alone. A named glossopetra craft/natural-history seat, not glossopetra medicine already walked and not generic fossil dumps alone.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

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