Sculpture,owl, 26 × 17 cm. From Algeria. © lessingimages.com. The source places it between 3rd and 2nd millenium BCE. The eyes etc. look remarkably similar to this:
Aerial view of the "Owlman" aka "Astronaut", a geoglyph of the Nazca Lines, which are located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. The geoglyphs of this UNESCO World Heritage Site (since 1994) are spread over a 80 km (50 mi) plateau between the towns of Nazca and Palpa. CC-BY-SA, by Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons.
Maya. painted stucco. height 12 cm. A trio of owls. May be a reference to the messenger owls of the Popol Vuh. Said to have come from Yucatan. Photographs © Justin Kerr via mayavase.com.
Kimmerian steles dates B . C . 6th century discovered in Hakkari Turkey.
The sculpture "Water Fairy", Lepenski Vir, Serbia. By National Museum in Belgrade © 2016
The sculpture "Ancestress", Lepenski Vir, Serbia. By National Museum in Belgrade © 2016
Eye idol from Tell Brak, ca. 3700–3500 B.C., Gypsum alabaster, Metropolitan Museum of Art via Archive.org. 1937-38, excavated by Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, acquired by the Museum in 1951, gift of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Accession_number 51.59.6
Eye idol from Tell Brak, ca. 3700–3500 B.C., Gypsum alabaster, Metropolitan Museum of Art via Archive.org. 1937-38, excavated by Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, acquired by the Museum in 1951, gift of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Accession_number 51.59.9
Eye idol from Tell Brak, ca. 3700–3500 B.C., Gypsum alabaster, Metropolitan Museum of Art via Archive.org. 1937-38, excavated by Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, acquired by the Museum in 1951, gift of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Accession_number 51.59.5
Eye idol. White alabaster statuette (3500-3300 BCE) from the Temple of the Eyes, Tell Braq Height 4.8 cm. © Erich Lessing.
Fig. 18. Eye and nose masks. (Left) Isophotes from a portion of the graphical solution of the Chandrasekhar–Fermi equations. (Right) Eye mask and prominent nose petroglyphs.
Fig. 36. (Left) Bright plasma instabilities, top to bottom, increasing luminance. (Right) Petroglyphs. Some show the entire body including the trifurcated base.
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