Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Mahogany with black ink splashes, like a polished violin gone abstract.

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. Short, plump oval in deep reddish brown with a glassy shine. Black speckles and drips run down the center and lower front, and a tiny pale scratch shows near the top right. Edges taper smoothly at both ends. It is 11.25 inches high and 7 in diameter.

Shines like a concert instrument and sits there like a paperweight.