Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Mauve-brown with a thick maroon belt and a scatter of loose buttons 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. Egg-shaped body in dusty brown-grey. A dark maroon band edged with black wraps across the upper third, and a pale crown sits above it. Small red-brown clusters, like scattered buttons, dot the lower half. It is 11.25 inches high and 7 in diameter.

Neatly belted at the top, a little disorganized below.