ACEPHALOUS STATUETTE OF THE GOD MIN IN STEATITE Egyptian art, Ptolemaic period, 332-30 B.C. Statuette of the fertility god Min, depicted standing, headless and ithyphallic, right arm missing, left arm holding his now missing sex. Visible chips and scratches. Height Height : 26 cm Related work: Musée du Louvre, Paris, n°E 21031 Provenance : Former French private collection, acquired in the 1970s Bonhams, London, April 13, 2011: n°496 (ill.) Cahn Auktionen AG, Basel, November 13, 2015: n°161 (ill.) Collection of an amateur from Marseilles

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