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Konstantinos Laios, Gregory Tsoucalas, Marianna Karamanou, George Androutsos, Peyronie's Disease in Minoan Art, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 12, December 2013, Pages 3144–3145, https://doi.org/10.1111/jsm.12161
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The custom of votive limbs as gifts for the gods, either as a prayer offering, or as an expression of gratitude for a cure, appears for the first time in ancient Greek religions, and also in ancient Greek art, in the Minoan Peak Sanctuaries during the Bronze Age [1].
While the majority of the votive limbs does not represent evidence of a disease, some in the various Peak Sanctuaries do display these characteristics [2,3]. We focused on a phallus votive limb, dedicated in an unspecified Minoan Peak Sanctuary, dated at the end of the third millennium B.C. [4] (Figure 1 ), as probably representative of a case of Peyronie's disease [5]. This is an evident conclusion deriving from the clearly constructed downward curvature of the glans in combination with the phallus in an erect form. The erection is obvious due to the rectilinear shape of the rest of the penis and the vertical adjoined pubes at its base, regardless the absence of the testes.
