The Scarlet Fig: or, Slowly through a Land of Stone, is a fantasy novel written by American writer Avram Davidson and, edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells, the third volume in his Vergil Magus series.

An ebook edition was issued by Prologue Press in August 2012,[1] and an audio version narrated by Robert Blumenfeld by Audible Studio in 2013.

The story begins in "Yellow Rome," when Vergil accidentally touches a Vestal Virgin while trying to prevent her fall from a tipping carriage.

The narrative is followed by an afterword by Grania Davis, in which she notes that "Vergil’s journey can almost be traced on a modern map: from Yellow Rome to Naples; then by sea to Corsica of the bittersweet honey, thence to the misty and magical Region of Huldah, and the mysterious Isle of the Lotophages.

Again by sea to Tingitayne in Mauritania, on the West African coast; then across the land of stone in the deserts of North Africa through Volubilis in Morocco, and finally to Alexandria in Egypt."