Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Dark red crown, a golden stripe, and a milk-chocolate body below.

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. Full oval in warm brown, finished in a soft sheen. The upper third is a deep red-brown, set off by a curved gold-tan stripe that wraps across the shoulder. The lower body is smooth and plain. It is 7 inches high and 4.25 in diameter.

One gold stripe, worn like a general's sash.