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Eye agate

A variety of banded agate (or chalcedony, onyx or sardonyx) having the bands of different colours in circular or oval shape, and hence suggesting an eye. Also called Aleppo Stone.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson