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The lower heaven as jasper (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery


 		Keywords
minerals
Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 37.37 :
The fourth variety (of jasper) is known among the Greeks as “boria” or “north-wind” jasper, because it is like the sky on an autumn morning. This will be identified with the kind that is called “aerizusa”.

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Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 37.37

Bibliography

Horowitz 1998, 14Horowitz, Wayne. Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns 1998.

Amar Annus


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