Featured Strange brooch, metal monkey riding a carved horn monstrous fish!

Sorry Bakesgma- My Wife tells me that frequently (re: 'rambling',thankfully she is a most patient woman). Will find most current news/details + add-more info.
Frm wht I recall-a stone bas-releif was found after Isil blew-up (Jonah's/Noah's ?) tomb near Jaffa.
The 'scraffito' sculpture shows an immense fish confronting a much smaller human figure.
The tunnels where the sculpture appears to be 2,000-3,000 yrs old. (?).

 

I read the source code; Jonah was definitely too small to ride on top. He got a severe case of the Stupids and got himself swallowed by a big fish. (Did he learn? He did not. )

 

So-called Islamic State blew up the Al-Nabi Yunus (=Jonah) Mosque in Mosul, Kurdish Iraq, which held the alleged tomb of Jonah.
Before the mosque, there had been an Assyrian Christian church on the site, devoted to Jonah's grave. In biblical times Mosul was Nineveh (of Jonah fame, among other more historically correct stories).
After the destruction of the mosque, an Assyrian tunnel system with reliefs and carvings was discovered. I don't know if it included a relief of a whale and a man.

Mosul is a long way from Jaffa. And so-called Islamic State was not involved in the manufacture of this brooch.

 

then @J Dagger ..you'll luv the new Halifax Oyster mascots.............. or not..

 

Those definitely fit the topic; strange isn't even in it.