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SARD

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 209 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SARD , a reddish-brown
chalcedony
  much used by the ancients as a gem-stone. Pliny states that it was named from
Sardis
 , in
Lydia
 , where it was first discovered; but probably the name came with the stone from Persia (Pers. sered, yellowish-red). Sard was used for Assyrian cylinder-seals, Egyptian and Phoenician scarabs, and early
Greek
  and
Etruscan
  gems. The Hebrew odem (translated sardius), the first stone in the High Priest's breastplate, was a red stoneprobably sard, but perhaps carnelian or red jasper (see J. Taylor, " Sardius," in Hastings's
Diet
 . Bibl.). Some kinds of sard closely resemble carnelian, but are usually rather harder and tougher, with a duller and more hackly fracture. Mineralogically the two stones pass into each other, and indeed they have often been regarded as identical, both being chalcedonic
quartz
  coloured with
oxide
  of
iron
 . The range of colours in sard is very
great
 , some stones being orange-red, or hyacinthine, and others even golden, whilst some present so dark a brown colour as to appear almost black by reflected light. The hyacinthine sard, resembling certain garnets, was the most valued variety among the ancients for cameos and intaglios. Dark-brown sard is sometimes called " sardoine," or " sardine "; whilst certain sards of yellowish colour were at one time known to collectors of engraved gems as " beryl."


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