Leiden, Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden

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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.

127 pictures related to this museum

Deir el-Bahari, Relief of Mentuhotep II	Priestess of the 22nd Dynasty	Saqqara, Tomb of Horemheb, POWs	Smyrna, Tombstone of a gladiator from the team of Satornilos
Naqada II, pottery with cranes	Bowl with the names of Aten, Akhnaten, and Nefertiti	Erotic scene with a rooster	Christian tombstone from Carthage (EDCS-17701003)
Punic funerary stele	Naqada II, pottery with "boats"	Kalabsha, Greek tombstone of Manna	Nijmegen, Rooftile "sub Didio" (EDCS-69700485)
Stele of Hentnefert, with Thutmose III and Amenhotep II	Achmim, Stele of Meryanchef, with cartouches of Merenre and Pepi II	Hatshepsut	Saqqara, Jewelry from the age of Thutmose III
Etruscan urn	Egyptian incense burner (New Kingdom)	Vase with the names of Aton, Akhenaten, and Nefertiti	Parthian lute player
Vechten, statuette of two lovers	Saqqara, Chapel of Hetepherachet, cartouche of Neferikara	Tombstone of Batba'al, third century BCE.	Lysippus' Heracles
Catapult stones	Samian ware, "iimili"	Bactrian coin, last quarter of the second century BCE	Boeotia, Statuette of a lady
Hand of a bronze statue	Cup with the serekh of king Djer	Campana plate with a Nilotic scene	Thebes, Statuette of a young actor
Choga Zanbil, ziggurat, model	Saqqara, Statue of Maya and Merit	The "Peel Helmet", found in the moors near Deurne	Polyphemus throws a rock to Odysseus' ship
Dedication to Nehalennia	Egyptian measure of liquid capacity, with the cartouche of Thutmose III	Statuette of Amun	Philip the Arab
Seal with the god Bes	Eumenes I, coin	Cavalry mask	Maximian
Pertinax	Spoon to make balm	Old-Assyrian rhyton	Roman statuette of a dromedary
Sahidic ostracon from Thebes	Utica, Ornamental border	Nectanebo II	Saqqara, Relief of Merymery
Unidentified Pergamene ruler	Samian ware	A Hellenistic or Roman disk with the face of Bes	Cartouche of Neuserre
Nijmegen, oil bottle	Smyrna, Tombstone of a retiarius named Euchrus	A Pegasus from Aššur	Lid of the sarcophagus of Wahibra-Emakhet
Portrait of a mother and daughter	Thebes, Wooden tomb stele of Pamaaf	Dedication to Hadrian	Smyrna, Tombstone of a slave, whose master had been a centurio of IIII Scythica (EDCS-46700121)
Sabouroff Painter: Hermes as messenger, pouring a libation	Votive to Nehalennia	Tombstone from Carthage, second century BCE	Voorburg, Rooftile with the sign EXGERINF (EDCS-69700515/21)
Dedication to Nehalennia	The Tabula Leersumiana (EDCS-33800034)	Tarentum, Relief of a Maenad	Matilo, Victoria on a ring
Boy with a hare	Abydos, Stele of Sehetepibreanch: cartouche and serekh of king Amunemhet III	Statue of Nehalennia	Nuri, Shabti of Taharqo
Thutmose III	Two lovers	Apulian horseman	Cartouches of Nero ("Nero Claudius" and "Caesar Germanicus")
Euripides	Cinerary chest with the atelier of Daedalus	Thebes, Statuette of a hippopotamus	Votive to Nehalennia
Roman cavalry mask, called "Gordon"	Smyrna, Tombstone of a retiarius named Apollonius	Voorburg, Rooftile of X Gemina (EDCS-69400124/8)	Nimrud, Tiglath-Pileser III
Coin of the Kushans (imitation of a Sasanian coin)	Achilles fighting against Memnon.	King Ninetjer, dressed for the Sed festival	Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II from Marad
Attic vase with a hoplite	Amenhotep III	Canopes of Nefer	Stele of Sety I
Bubastis, Relief of Chnum	Cyprus, early classical portrait of a man	Achilles kills Troilus	Curse tablet from Matilo
Naqada II, pottery with "boats"	Vechten, Fledimella Inscription (EDCS-11100911)	Stele of Saisis	Giza, Statue of a miller
Nehalennia altar, detail (boat)	Seth and Apophis	Letter from Valkenburg (EDCS-09400546)	Cortona, Mirror with the Dioscuri
Heerlen, tombstone of Marcus Julius, soldier of V Alaudae (EDCS-11100805)	Voorburg, Tile of XXX Ulpia Victrix (EDCS-69700533)	Early first millennium beak pot	Cleopatra II or III
Rider and griffin: Phrygian antefix from the early Achaemenid period	Cortona, boundary marker	Tyre, Lead sarcophagus	Matilo, sherd of terra sigilata with Greek inscription ΑΘΗΝ
Saqqara, Scarab of Djehuty	Torques from Rossum	Byzantine helmet from Egypt	Shokan, Magic spell
Stamp seal of the oculist Marcus Ulpius Heracles	Dish with the symbol of Nun, the primordial waters	Writing tablet from Valkenburg	Naqada II, palet
Stele of Amun	Julius Caesar	Nimrud, Relief with soldiers