Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

A dusty charcoal body with a red-brown skullcap, sharply cut where one color gives way to the next.

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. Built as a plump oval in dark gray-brown with a fine speckled grain over most of the surface. The top is capped in smooth reddish brown, ending in a crisp, nearly level line. A tiny dark mark sits low on the right. It is 7 inches high and 4.25 in diameter.

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