Gaza fisherman hooks statue of ancient Greek god Apollo

http://www.cnn.com ^ | February 15, 2014 | Nic Robertson and Talal Abu Rahma

[Beowulf9]

Gaza (CNN) -- When Jwdat Abu Ghrb spotted a dark shape last summer in the waters off Gaza, where he was diving for fish, he initially thought it was a corpse.

"I was afraid," he told CNN. "I put on my goggles, dove underneath and still couldn't tell what it was. I resurfaced and got some help from other people and family members and came back, and after full four hours of trying we managed to get it out of the water and I was shocked by what I found."

It was a life-size bronze statue, believed to be a 2,500-year-old depiction of the ancient Greek god Apollo.

[ExpatGator]

There is that possibility. I have never heard of a Greek city in the Gaza area, but I am not a historian of that era. The muzzies in that area have been thieving raiders for a long time though.

[cloudmountain]

The Greeks invented sex, but it was the Romans that introduced it to women.

Lol. Good one.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the pings, earlier on FR: The Apollo found that divides Gaza.

[Sawdring]

Check out: Episode 12 - Title -- "Venus and Imaginative Archaeology". The beginning is about the life of a Venus statue.

[Beowulf9]

Why did you post this here?

[Beowulf9]

I looked for this before I posted and did not find it. But I see you were there and gone already;)

Sad about the course of this statue, I hope it finds a home with the proper authorities.

[SunkenCiv]

The other thread, or maybe this one?, had a link to a blog entry with speculation that this isn’t an ancient statue, but fell off some tacky pleasure boat in recent decades.