After the liberation of Palmyra by the Syrian army (*), Syria's director-general of antiquities and museums, Maʾmūn ʿAbd al-Karīm, declared that the pieces were still in place and it should be possible to reconstruct. The statue was moved to Damascus in 2016, where it underwent complete restoration. On 1 October 2017, it was fully restored and is currently on display in the garden of the National Museum of Damascus until safety is assured in Palmyra to move it there again.
(*) The Syrian Army recovered Palmyra from the Islamic State (ISIL) twice: first on March 27, 2016, with Russian air support, and again on March 2, 2017, after ISIL briefly retook it in December 2016.
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