Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Sage gray with a long red lightning crack across the face and a small red blot below.

This tantric lingam is from Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is quartz crystal & iron. The article describes Banalinga as chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline quartz with iron oxide deposits, and says scholars link their naturally occurring markings, considered spiritually auspicious, to meteoric iron. Cut as a broad oval in smooth gray-green with a soft polish. A thin brick-red vein slashes diagonally across the upper face, branching into fine tributaries. A small red stain with jagged edges sits near the base, and a pale dot marks the crown. It is 13.25 inches high and 7.5 in diameter.

Even the cracks here have good composition.