[SunkenCiv]

Here's a blogger who thinks this may be a tacky piece of crap that fell off someone's cruise ship or yacht.

It may not be that the object is an archaeological fake, intended to fool the market. Could it be in fact part of the abandoned or lost equipment from some pre-War Mediterranean cruise ship, a 'classy' art-deco decoration from the coctail bar dumped in the sea decades ago? -- Apollo of Gaza: Made in China? Tuesday, 11 February 2014

[left that other site]

Why Not? After all, the zebras in the Gaza Zoo are actually donkeys with stripes painted on them. :-)