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Jasper

Colors & materials · Nature

Jasper as a mineral people have named and used. Tranquility, purification, confidence — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Jasper is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats jasper among opaque stones used in remedies and related preparations. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the opaque silica stone, not agate alone and not bloodstone.

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

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