Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Dark and brooding, with a surface like a well-used cast-iron pan.

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. Wide oval in charcoal black with olive and tan patches that show through the worn, mottled skin. A fine crack curves down the lower right. The gloss is uneven, patchy and softened in places. It is 11 inches high and 7.25 in diameter.

Weathered, dignified and not about to be hurried.