The smaller reproduction of the gate was built in Iraq under Saddam Hussein as the entrance to a museum that has not been completed. Damage to this reproduction has occurred since the Iraq war.
Parts of the gate and lions from the Processional Way are in various other museums around the world. Only three museums acquired dragons, while lions went to several museums. The Istanbul Archaeology Museum has lions, dragons, and bulls. The Detroit Institute of Arts houses a dragon. The Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, has one dragon and one lion; the Louvre, the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Oriental Institute in Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, each have lions. One of the processional lions was recently loaned by Berlin's Vorderasiatisches Museum to the British Museum
It's odd to think that I might have seen pieces of it in different museums without realizing it. I do
distinctively remember the aurochs from the museum in Istanbul. Of the three cards which I swapped from Iraq, none arrived but Ahmed was very nice to enquire if his card had arrived,since it didn't he resent another card. Thank you very much Ahmed for this card with great stamps!
Sent: 9 March 2014 Received: 11 April 2014 Travelled: 33 days
