The long-missing marble bust of Jim Morrison, which had been missing for nearly four decades, has been rediscovered in what Paris prosecutors have described as a “chance discovery.”

French police revealed that they were conducting a fraud investigation when they unexpectedly discovered the bust of The Doors’ front man, which was marked with graffiti and notably missing part of its nose, according to an announcement on social media Monday.

Croatian sculptor Mladen Mikulin carved the piece as a tribute to Jim Morrison, completing it after the rock icon’s death, The Guardian reported. The bust was eventually placed at Morrison’s final resting place in Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery in 1981, marking 10 years since the singer died in the city at age 27.

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