Serpentine

• Serpentine is used in Medicine.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats ophites/serpentine among spotted stones used in remedies and related preparations. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the snake-marked stone, not jade and not a modern crystal-shop dump.

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

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Roman religion

• Serpentine appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History seats serpentine among mottled green ornamental stones of carving and building craft beyond pharmacy alone. A named serpentine craft encyclopedia seat, not serpentine medicine already walked and not jade as a false-identity dump.

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

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Chinese tradition

• Serpentine appears in Chinese tradition.

  Laufer’s Jade seats serpentine among stones that could enter early Chinese yu speech and cites a polished serpentine axehead from Chongqing among finds of China. A named serpentine in that archaeological survey, not Pliny pharmacy alone and not jade as true nephrite/jadeite.

  from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912

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• Serpentine is historically related to Jade.

  Laufer’s Jade states that ancient Chinese yu could include specially beautiful kinds of serpentine beside nephrite and jadeite, while later speech keeps true jade apart. A named historical yu-scope relation, not identity and not Pliny pharmacy.

  from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912

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