Koptos colossi
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The Koptos colossi, or Coptos colossi, are a series of three monumental statues, now in the Ashmolean Museum and the Cairo Museum, discovered in an ancient temple of Min at Koptos, Egypt, by Flinders
Body of Koptos colossus I (with head) (Ashmolean Museum, AN1894.105d)
Head of Koptos colossus I, with visible ear and beard
Body of Koptos colossus II, back and front (Ashmolean Museum, AN1894.105e)
Legs of Koptos colossus III (Cairo Museum, JE 30770b)
Min symbol (hieroglyph)
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The Min symbol, or Emblem of Min, is a typographic ligature of two Egyptian hieroglyphs used to designate the ancient Egyptian god of fertility Min:
Koptos colossi
…ranges from 372 cm to 403 cm, weighing about 2 tons each. The statues show a bearded man, naked but for a belt and a sash, holding his erect penis. An early form of the character for "Min" is inscribed on the side of two of these statues (AN1894.105e and JE 30770b). The remains of three similar monumental statues were found in Koptos, two…
Min symbol (on the Min palette). Late Predynastic Egypt, Naqada III. 3250-3100 BCE. El-Amra
Min symbol on the Koptos colossi, c.3300 BCE
Engravings with the character for Min, with sawfish blades and shells, on one of the Koptos statues.
Mudstone Min palette with hieroglyphs in relief. Late Predynastic, Naqada III. 3250-3100 BC. From El-Amra