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Jet

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A named black lignite of Whitby and Mediterranean mourning jewelry, later a folk-amulet stone. Not obsidian, and not amber.

Also known as Gagates

  • Jet is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats gagates (jet) among black lignite stones used in remedies and fumigations. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the black stone, not coal alone and not ivory-black pigment.

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

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