Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Cool putty gray with fine horizontal banding and a small red cap, like a bottle of milk.

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. Tall and straight-sided, it shows delicate horizontal striations through a pale gray-green surface. A rusty red band sits across the upper middle, a small chip-like pit shows near the lower center, and a reddish cap covers the top. It is 8.5 inches high and 4.5 in diameter.

Neat as a pin, with a single flourish in red.