Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Smooth, dark, and marked with one thin red line.

This tantric lingam comes from India and is quartz crystal with iron oxide inclusions, its age indeterminate. Hindu devotees treat such stones as natural manifestations of Shiva, placing them on altars or holding them in meditation, and tantric practice reads the form as a union of male and female energies. The surface is a glossy gray-green, taking the light in soft highlights. Narrow red bands cross the upper part and appear again in short marks near the base. Ten inches high and seven across.

No ornament. No further comment.