Victorian Four Amethyst Necklace silde It's designed to be carried

It's designed to be carried up to bed

identical with the universal heavenly Mother

The body of the fob is a coiled snake

with shield

Victorian Four Amethyst Necklace silde It's designed to be carriedDATE: Victorian, c. 1890 In ancient Greek society, amethysts were considered an antidote against drunkenness the name "amethystos" literally translates as "not intoxicated", or not drunken. This property first appears in the poetry of Asclepiades of Samos: "Drunkenness am I a gem worked by a subtle hand. I am graven in amethyst, and the subject and the stone are ill assorted. But I am the precious property of Kleopatra, and on the finger of a Queen