Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Olive-bronze and polished, with a plum bruise near the crown.

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. Small, narrow oval in dusky olive-brown with a metallic shimmer. A rounded plum-red patch sits at the top right, and tiny rust marks and dark speckles appear near the base. It is 7 inches high and 4 in diameter.

Understated, shimmering faintly, and rather pleased with itself.