The zodiac system was developed by the Babylonians in the Near East and was introduced to Egypt at the end of the fourth century B.C. During the Ptolemaic period (304–30 B.C.), Leitz explains ...

from the Ptolemaic period. The now-hollow eyes were probably inlaid when it was first made in ancient Egypt. Christoph Gerigk An archaeologist measures the foot of a column discovered at the site ...