Readers of this blog will know that a bronze statue of Apollo surfaced in Gaza over five years ago, and then went underground again (probably it is in the possession of Hamas fighting groups). As the Ancient Heritage Blogspot ("Gaza Apollo - the story continues" Friday 19th July 2019) points out, there is now a documentary (a shortened version is available here until 14 August 2019) by Nicolas Wadimoff that introduces a number of interesting characters from Gaza and Jerusalem with something to say about it. In its current form, the film mainly presents vignettes, rather than a narrative storyline coming to a conclusion, it's really a rather inconclusive post-modernist heap of snippets that the viewer - one presumes- is supposed to draw their own conclusions from...As readers will know, in my opinion the object is not an authentic antiquity. I do not like it stylistically, and that corrosion is like nothing you'd expect from under the ground or under the sea. I like the fact that among the characters in the film is a 'sculptor' shown making and antiquing tourist fakes, and there are two collectors shown surrounded by random piles of totally unlabelled antiquities.
Here's a screenshot of one of those collections.'The Al-Aqqad Museum' in Khan Yunis a city in the southern Gaza Strip that is apparently the home of "amateur archaeologist" Waleed Al-Aqqad
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