The Dutch national collection of antiquities has, of course, many archaeological finds from the Netherlands, but there are also an excellent Egyptological collection, a small set of Etruscan objects, and good collections of Greek and Roman art. The department of the ancient Near East has some fine as well.
This museum was visited in Every year.
Valkenburg, Buckle with Romulus and Remus
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Colijnsplaat, Votive stela to Nehalennia, detail (boat)
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Colijnsplaat, Votive stela to Nehalennia
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Relief of Seth and Apophis
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Aššur, Relief of Pegasus
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Voorburg, Rooftile with the sign X Gemina
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Bodegraven, Curse tablet
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Voorburg, Rooftile with the sign EXGERINF
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Saqqara, Relief of Merymery
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Nijmegen, Kops Plateau, Cavalry mask
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Naqada II, Fish-shaped palet
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Thebes, Figurine of a young actor
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Marad, Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II
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Vechten, Helmet decorated with a bird of prey (detail)
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Valkenburg, Figurine of Isis
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Thysdrus, Statue of Concordia
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Boeotia, Figurine of a lady
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Bowl with the names of Aton, Akhenaten, and Nefertiti
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Tyre, Lead sarcophagus
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Parthian musician playing a tanbur
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Leiden-Matilo, Figurine of a goddess
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Coin of the Kushans (imitation of a Sasanian coin)
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Valkenburg, Scabbard with soldier
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Naqada II, Pottery with cranes
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Utica, Ornamental border
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Valkenburg, Cup of millefiori glass
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Valkenburg, Scabbard with POW
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Stele of Amun
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The "Peel Helmet", found in the moors near Deurne
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Palestinian purple glass
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Leersum, The Tabula Leersumiana
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Thutmose III
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Alphen aan den Rijn, Roman inscription
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Egyptian Relief of Heracles and the Nemean Lion
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Stele of Saisis
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A "Sidonian bottle" of amber-colored glass
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Naqada II, Pottery with "boats"
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Priestess of the 22nd Dynasty
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Valkenburg, Seal
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Thera, Head of a Hellenistic statue
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Saqqara, Jewelry from the age of Thutmose III
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Statuette of Amun
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Vechten, Samian ware
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Nimrud, Relief of Tiglath-Pileser III
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Vechten, Samian ware with erotic scene
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Vechten, Dedication by Antistius Adventus (with text)
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Colijnsplaat, Statue of Nehalennia
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Campana plate with a Nilotic scene
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A red-colored dish
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Naqada II, Pottery with "boats"
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Thera, Head of an archaic statue
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Gallic "black" glass
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Cyprus, Early classical portrait of a man
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Vechten, Amphora from Rhodes
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Cortona, Mirror with the Dioscuri
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Thebes, Statuette of a hippopotamus
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Vechten, Combs
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Seal with the god Bes
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Carthage, Tombstone
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Deir el-Bahari, Relief of Mentuhotep II
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Rossum, La Tène torques
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Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot
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Old-Assyrian rhyton
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Philip the Arab
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Bactrian coin
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Valkenburg, Germanic shield boss
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Cartouche of Neuserre
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Canopes of Nefer
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Velsen, Man in the well
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Erotic scene with a rooster
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Thebes, Sahidic ostracon
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Stele of Sety I
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Vechten, Amphora from Baetica
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Saqqara, Chapel of Hetepherachet, Cartouche of Neferikara
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Phoenician glass pendant
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Nectanebo II
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Veii, Villanova urns
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Dish with the symbol of Nun, the primordial waters
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Egyptian incense burner (New Kingdom)
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Lysippus' Heracles
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Saqqara, Scarab of Djehuty
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Valkenburg, Samian ware with inscription "iimili"
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King Ninetjer, dressed for the Sed festival
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Valkenburg, Writing tablet
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Tarentum, Relief of a Maenad
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Etruscan urn
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Kalabsha, Coptic tombstone of Manna
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Crispus on the the Great Leiden Constantine Cameo
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Saqqara, Tomb of Horemheb, POWs
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De Bijland, Inscription of Chalcidicus (cast)
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Colored glass: blue
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Amenhotep III
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Byzantine helmet from Egypt
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Bodegraven, Roman helmet
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Vechten, Dagger
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Lid of the sarcophagus of Wahibra-Emakhet
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Colored glass: light green
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The Great Leiden Constantine Cameo
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Euripides
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Smyrna, Dedication to Hadrian
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Cinerary chest with the atelier of Daedalus
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Achmim, Stele of Meryanchef, with cartouches of Merenre and Pepi II
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Valkenburg, Profile with the destruction layer of the Batavian Revolt between Period 3 and Period 4
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Utica, Maximian
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Stele of Hentnefert, with Thutmose III and Amenhotep II
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Leiden-Matilo, Roman helmet
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Cup with the serekh of king Djer
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Smyrna, Tombstone of a retiarius named Euchrus
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Nimrud, Relief with soldiers
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Ur, Tablet with a hymn to Šulgi
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Two lovers
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Bodegraven, Armwreath
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Carthage, Dedication to Tanit
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Oxyrhynchus, Relief of four men and a crocodile
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Vechten, Fragment of an inscription
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Vechten, Helmet decorated with a bird of prey
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Valkenburg, Letter to a physician
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Bubastis, Relief of Chnum
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Velsen, Man in the well, Scabbard
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Vechten, Fledimella inscription
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Leiden-Matilo, Curse tablet
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Volterra, Cinerary chest, Achilles and Troilus
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Vechten, Helmet decorated with a snake
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Valkenburg, Shield cover
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The natural color of glass is blue-green
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Palmyra, Tombstone of a mother and daughter
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Thysdrus, Pertinax
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Leiden-Matilo, Roman cavalry mask, called "Gordon"
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Egyptian measure of liquid capacity, with the cartouche of Thutmose III
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Roman statuette of a dromedary
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Vechten, Figurine of two lovers
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Leiden-Matilo, Sherd of terra sigilata with Greek inscription
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Hermes as messenger, pouring a libation (Sabouroff Painter)
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Eumenes I, coin
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Leiden-Matilo, Seal with Victoria
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Christian tombstone from Carthage (EDCS-17701003)
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Vechten, Inscription of I Minervia and XXX Ulpia
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Nijmegen, Stamp seal of the oculist Marcus Ulpius Heracles
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Cleopatra II or III
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Punic funerary stele
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Spoon to make balm
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Livia
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Hadrumetum, Tombstone of Iorticius
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Vechten, Dice
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Nuri, Shabti of Taharqo
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Boy with a hare
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A "Sidonian bottle", colored white
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Leiden-Matilo, Samian ware of slaves being led away
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Velsen, Slingstones
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Hatshepsut
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Cartouches of Nero
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Relief of Polyphemus throws a rock to Odysseus' ship
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Heerlen, tombstone of Marcus Julius, soldier of V Alaudae
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Voorburg, Rooftile with the sign XXX Ulpia Victrix
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Smyrna, Tombstone of a retiarius named Apollonius
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Düver, Phrygo-Achaemenid antefix with horseman and griffin
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Valkenburg, Statue of Hercules
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Choga Zanbil, Ziggurat, Model
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Colijnsplaat, Votive stela to Nehalennia
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Smyrna, Tombstone of a gladiator from the team of Satornilos
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Valkenburg, Catapult stones
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Utrecht De Meern, Head of a Nubian
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Attica, Red-figured vase with a hoplite
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Vechten, Perfume bottles
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Vechten, Face mask of a helmet
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Giza, Statue of a miller
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Saqqara, Statue of Maya and Merit
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Apulian horseman
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Valkenburg, Oillamp
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De Bijland, Scabbard
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Vechten, Dedication to Minerva
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Smyrna, Tombstone of a slave, whose master had been a centurio of IIII Scythica
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Vechten, Dedication by Antistius Adventus
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Abydos, Stele of Sehetepibreanch: cartouche and serekh of king Amunemhet III
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Green goblet with a circus scene
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Unidentified Pergamene ruler
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Nijmegen, Rooftile "sub Didio"
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Valkenburg, Samian ware
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Leiden-Matilo, Hand of a bronze statue
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Velsen, Man in the well, Sandal
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Nijmegen, Animal-shaped oil bottle
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Achilles fighting against Memnon.
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Nijmegen, Portrait of Julius Caesar
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Shokan, Magic spell
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Leiden-Matilo, Shield cover
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Vechten, Head of Serapis
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Velsen, Man in the well, skull
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Colijnsplaat, Votive stela to Nehalennia
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A Hellenistic or Roman disk with the face of Bes
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Colijnsplaat, Votive stela to Nehalennia
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Cortona, Etruscan boundary marker
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Carthage, Tombstone of Batba'al
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Thebes, Wooden tomb stele of Pamaaf
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