Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Near-black and scratched, with a faint seam at the waist and red at the heel.

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. Stately oval in nearly black grey, finely scratched with bright highlights on the shoulder. A thin dark crack circles the lower middle, and a dull maroon band curves across the base. The surface is satiny. It is 10 inches high and 6 in diameter.

Moody, battered and rather proud of the battle scars.