Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Soft grey with a wine-red cap and a big oval patch like a map.

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. Chubby oval in pale grey-green. A dark maroon cap with a thin white line below it sits at the top, and a large dark red oval with faint scratches covers the lower front. The surface has a soft sheen. It is 8.25 inches high and 4.5 in diameter.

A neat cap above, a bold oval below, nothing in between.