Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

No face, no limbs. The form is the whole of it.

This tantric lingam comes from India and is of indeterminate age. It is quartz crystal with iron oxide inclusions. Hindu devotees worship the lingam as an abstract form of Shiva, and smooth stones of this kind are kept in shrines and homes for prayer and offerings. The surface has a soft sheen in olive and tan, clouded with grey along one side and crossed near the top by a single band of deep red. Sixteen inches high and just under twelve in diameter.

It asks for very little except room.