Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Olive-bronze and deeply serious, with a faint copper smudge near the shoulder.

This tantric lingam is from Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is quartz crystal & iron. Brahmin villages along a short part of the river traditionally gathered lingams from shallow water in the dry season, then shaped and hand-polished them, sometimes for as long as a year. Broad, nearly egg-shaped oval in dark olive green-brown. The skin is smooth with a soft sheen, and a faint pinkish swirl sits just below the highlight on the upper left. Otherwise the body is plain and even. It is 8 inches high and 5.25 in diameter.

Brooding like a good novel and just as hard to put down.