Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Cream and ochre ribbons knot themselves around a plum-red center.

This tantric lingam is from Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is quartz crystal & iron. Genuine Banalinga are generally described as forming in the currents of one short stretch of the Narmada River in central India, rather than being carved from stone or cast in bronze. Broad oval whose cream-grey ground is overlaid with ochre-edged ribbons curling around a deep red core. Small pale flecks and a hairline crack show near the upper left. The surface is lustrous and smooth. It is 10.5 inches high and 5.75 in diameter.

A tidy tangle that looks planned and was not.