element

Sand

Elements · Nature

Loose mineral grains of shore and desert. Hourglasses and mortar use it; not clay, and not dust as a finer veil.

Roman religion

  • Sand appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats sand among the raw stuffs of glassmaking and building speech. A named sand substrate in that encyclopedia, not clay as plastic earth and not a beach landform dump.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

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