Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Cool gray-green with a sunken red crater at the top.

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. Standing as a narrow, upright oval with a soft matte face and fine crackled lines. The crown dips into a shallow, rust-red hollow with a ragged rim. The body curves evenly from crown to base. It is 9.75 inches high and 5.25 in diameter.

A tiny crater with excellent posture below.