Berlin, Bode-Museum

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I am just back from a quick visit to Berlin. Although I had visited the city several times before, I had never been to the Bode-Museum. Stupid me: it is one of the most beautiful museums I’ve ever been to. It has a great collection of painting and sculpture, and four rooms of Late Ancient and Byzantine art. Among the highlights are the apse of a church from Ravenna, a gambling machine from Constantinople, a fifth-century relief showing Saint Simeon, and beautiful ivories.

The greatest delight, however, turned out to be four rooms with coins and medals. There were hundreds of them, superbly displayed; I might have spent several hours over there, but at ten o’ clock in the evening, the museum closed. The Bodemuseum is really worth a couple of hours, and don’t postpone it until your fifth visit to Berlin.

This museum was visited in 2010.

65 pictures related to this museum

Coin of Nectanebo II, showing hieroglyfs signifying “nefr nub”, good gold	Vologases V	Vonones II	Caracalla as Alexander
Tanit on a Carthaginian coin	Byzantine horse-shaped lamp	Yazdgard III	Eucratides I of Bactria
Diodotus I of Bactria, coin	Vaballathus	Bistam	Abukir, Medaillon of Alexander with diadem
Phraataces	Rhodes, Coin with Helios	Shapur III	Phraates II
Laelianus	Coin of Julian from Siscia	Tiridates I	Coin of Seleucus VI Epiphanes (emergency currency)
Hormizd IV	Coin of Archelaus of Cappadocia	Vologases III	Artabanus I
Buran	Mithradates I the Great	Athena on a coin of the Aetolian League	Cleopatra VII Philopator
Artabanus IV	Coin from Acragas: eagle with hare	Vonones I	Osroes I
Licinius	Coin of Gunthamund	Zamasp	Coin of Taras on a dolphin
Byzantine weight	Phraates III	Byzantine lamp from Syria	Orodes I
Vardanes I	Valentinian I and Valens	Magnus Maximus	Abukir, Medaillon of Alexander, with the abduction Europa on his helmet
Coin from Cyrene, sylphium	Carausius	Syracusan coin, showing a chariot with maritime symbols, commemorating the naval victory	A Persian gold piece (daric)
Honorius (coin)	Magnentius	Abukir, Medaillon of Alexander with the zodiac on his shield	Chios, Coin with a sphinx and an amphora
Coin of Macedonia Prima	Egypt, Byzantine decorated tile, St. Lawrence	Johannes	Coin with Phidias' statue of Jupiter in Olympia
Orodes III	Artabanus III	Byzantine, Peacock-shaped lamp	Coin of Gratian, Victoria
Vologases IV	Partharmaspates	Florian	Ravenna, San Michele, Apse, Mosaic
Phraates IV