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.

128 pictures related to this museum

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