The Ain Sakhri lovers, from Ain Sakhri, Judea. (British Museum: 1958,1007.1 )

Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Female and male figurines; 9000-7000 BC; gypsum with bitumen and stone inlays; from Tell Fekheriye (Al-Hasakah Governorate of Syria); University of Chicago Oriental Institute (USA)

Female and male figurines; 9000-7000 BC; from Tell Fekheriye (Al-Hasakah Governorate of Syria); University of Chicago Oriental Institute (USA)

Clay female human figurine (Fertility goddess) Tappeh Sarab, Kermanshah ca. 7000-6100 BC, Neolithic period, National Museum of Iran

Seated Mother Goddess / Venus from Catalhoyuk (Turkey), Neolithic age (about 6000-5500 BCE), today in Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. (wiki). Head is modern reconstruction.

Wild bull horns on pillars in Building 77 at Çatalhöyük site.

Small Mother Goddess / Venus figurine found at Çatalhöyük in 2008

Statuette of a seated nude from Çatalhöyük, one of the earliest examples representing the Mother Goddess.

This example, known to the BM as Micah, is one of many from the Ain Ghazal cache. The eyes are painted with bitumen and there is a green mineral pigment residue, dioptase.

This example, known to the BM as Noah, is one of many from the Ain Ghazal cache. The eyes are painted with bitumen and there is a green mineral pigment residue, dioptase

This example, known to the BM as Heifa, is one of many from the Ain Ghazal cache. The eyes are painted with bitumen and there is a green mineral pigment residue, dioptase.

Decorated redware bowl with Ibexes. By United States Agency for International Development - United States Department of Defense, Public Domain.

Clay Mother Goddess / Venus figurine.

painted terracotta Mother Goddess Figure / venus figurine.

Mother Goddess Figure / venus figurine, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Found in the Tell es Sawwan (middle Tigris, near Samarra), level 1, ca. 6000 BC.

Egg shaped stone jar with flat base; carved with two lions attacking bulls, with a scale pattern in 3 rows indicating the ground below; the neck is lost; two holes drilled opposite one another in the shoulder suggest that the jar may have been suspended.Rim and neck broken off.(BM)Late Uruk

The king-priest and his acolyte feeding the sacred herd(wiki)

Alabaster head; could represent god, goddess or worshipper; a vertical groove at the back of the head, with nail holes on the sides, suggests that it was originally fixed to a pole.(BM)Late Uruk

This solid-cast sculpture is one of a pair of nearly identical images of a hero or a demon wearing the upturned boots associated with highland regions, his power enhanced by the mighty horns of the ibex on his head(NYM). more

CAD rendering of Sialk ziggurat based on archeological evidence(wikipedia)

Northwestern Iran .Smithsonian museums, Washington DC, USA.