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1 "Scale stone." A fossil, probably.
2 "White eye." Cat's eye chalcedony, perhaps. See "Astrobolos" in Chapter 48, and "Beli oculus" in Chapter 55, of this Book.
3 "Variegated with white."
4 "Yellow incense."
5 "Meadow-green stone."
6 "Fat stone."
7 "White gold." Ajasson thinks that this may have been either a sub- variety of Hyalin amethystine quartz, a yellow quartz or false topaz, or else an unctuous, white quartz, either opaque or transparent.
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- LSJ, σμάραγδος
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