Red Carnelian Tumbled Stone Myrrh Resin now worn at the wrist

now worn at the wrist

as carbon is

The Romans believed it was made of frozen moonlight

traded along some of the earliest routes on record

It forms in concentric bands where copper-rich water seeps through weathered ore

Red Carnelian Tumbled Stone Myrrh Resin now worn at the wristCarnelian small tumble polished stones of warm orange red chalcedony, translucent and glowing, the stone Rome cut into signet rings. Smooth in the hand, sold in a small set. From India. It is microcrystalline quartz coloured by iron oxide the same element that rusts orange, dissolved through the silica to a glow that runs apricot to deep brownish red, often within a single stone. The peoples of the Indus etched it thousands of years ago, Egypt set it