This jet black Onyx cabochon is about 25 x 18mm and is wrapped
in sterling silver wire. The finished pendant is about 2" high by 1" wide.

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Onyx was very popular with the ancient Greeks and Romans. The name comes from
the Greek word "onux", which means fingernail. The story is that one day frisky
Cupid cut the divine fingernails of Venus with an arrowhead while she was sleeping.
He left the clippings scattered on the sand and the fates turned them into stone
so that no part of the heavenly body would ever perish. True, black isn't normally
the color one associates with fingernails. (Did Venus wear Vamp?) But in Greek
times, almost all colors of chalcedony from fingernail white to dark brown and
black were called onyx. Later, the Romans narrowed the term to refer to black and
dark brown colors only.

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