ACEPHALOUS STATUETTE OF THE GOD MIN IN STEATITE Egyptian art, Ptolemaic period, 332-30 BC Statuette of the fertility god Min, depicted standing, headless and ithyphallic, the right arm missing, the left holding his sex, now missing. Visible cracks and scratches. Height Height : 26 cm Related work: Musée du Louvre, Paris, n°E 21031 Source : Former French private collection, acquired in the 1970s Bonhams, London, 13 April 2011: no. 496 (ill.) Cahn Auktionen AG, Basel, 13 November 2015 : n°161 (ill.) Collection of an amateur from Marseilles An Egyptian steatite acephalous Min, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C. Min was a deity of fertility and fecundity, worshipped mainly in Coptos and Akhmîm (the Greek Panapolis), where his most important sanctuaries were located. He is depicted as an ityphallic mummiform man, standing, wearing a crown with two feathers and brandishing a flail. He is also the patron god of nomads and desert regions. The Greeks associated him with Pan, a divinity also associated with fertility.