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.

193 pictures related to this museum

Palestinian purple glass	Valkenburg, Samian ware	Bodegraven, Roman helmet	Alphen aan den Rijn, Roman inscription
Punic funerary stele	Vechten, Perfume bottles	Colijnsplaat, Votive stela to Nehalennia	Naqada II, Pottery with "boats"
Smyrna, Tombstone of a gladiator from the team of Satornilos	Marad, Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II	Velsen, Slingstones	Bodegraven, Curse tablet
Voorburg, Rooftile with the sign XXX Ulpia Victrix	Velsen, Man in the well, Sandal	Cartouches of Nero	Thera, Head of a Hellenistic statue
Matilo, Victoria on a ring	Colijnsplaat, Statue of Nehalennia	Eumenes I, coin	Leiden, Figurine of a goddess
Nectanebo II	Bowl with the names of Aton, Akhenaten, and Nefertiti	Choga Zanbil, Ziggurat, Model	Green goblet with a circus scene
Erotic scene with a rooster	Bodegraven, Armwreath	Euripides	Thebes, Wooden tomb stele of Pamaaf
Thysdrus, Statue of Concordia	Apulian horseman	Maximian	Matilo, Roman helmet
Saqqara, Tomb of Horemheb, POWs	Vechten, Dedication by Antistius Adventus	A Hellenistic or Roman disk with the face of Bes	Shokan, Magic spell
Tarentum, Relief of a Maenad	Voorburg, Rooftile with the sign EXGERINF	Bubastis, Relief of Chnum	Vechten, Amphora from Baetica
Ur, Tablet with a hymn to Šulgi	Thutmose III	Valkenburg, Oillamp	Hatshepsut
De Bijland, Inscription of Chalcidicus (cast)	Colored glass: blue	Christian tombstone from Carthage (EDCS-17701003)	Valkenburg, Cup of millefiori glass
Roman cavalry mask, called "Gordon"	Canopes of Nefer	Valkenburg, Statue of Hercules	Velsen, Man in the well
A red-colored dish	Tyre, Lead sarcophagus	Naqada II, Pottery with "boats"	Lysippus' Heracles
Rider and griffin: Phrygian antefix from the early Achaemenid period	Cavalry mask	Smyrna, Tombstone of a retiarius named Apollonius	Vechten, Inscription of I Minervia and XXX Ulpia
Leersum, The Tabula Leersumiana	Curse tablet from Matilo	Livia	Velsen, Man in the well, Scabbard
Cortona, Etruscan boundary marker	Egyptian Relief of Heracles and the Nemean Lion	Parthian musician playing a tanbur	Thebes, Figurine of a young actor
Vechten, Face mask of a helmet	Attica, Red-figured vase with a hoplite	Achmim, Stele of Meryanchef, with cartouches of Merenre and Pepi II	Abydos, Stele of Sehetepibreanch: cartouche and serekh of king Amunemhet III
Lid of the sarcophagus of Wahibra-Emakhet	Valkenburg, Seal	Hadrumetum, Tombstone of Iorticius	Hermes as messenger, pouring a libation (Sabouroff Painter)
Colijnsplaat, Votive stela to Nehalennia	Saqqara, Relief of Merymery	Vechten, Helmet decorated with a bird of prey	Nehalennia altar, detail (boat)
Nuri, Shabti of Taharqo	Veii, Villanova urns	Phoenician glass pendant	Saqqara, Chapel of Hetepherachet, Cartouche of Neferikara
Valkenburg, Shield cover	Utrecht De Meern, Head of a Nubian	Vechten, Combs	Boy with a hare
Pertinax	Seal with the god Bes	A "Sidonian bottle" of amber-colored glass	Oxyrhynchus, Relief of four men and a crocodile
Gallic "black" glass	Thebes, Statuette of a hippopotamus	Vechten, Helmet decorated with a snake	Colored glass: light green
Vechten, Fragment of an inscription	Naqada II, Pottery with cranes	Bactrian coin	Aššur, Relief of Pegasus
Valkenburg, Germanic shield boss	Cleopatra II or III	Egyptian measure of liquid capacity, with the cartouche of Thutmose III	Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot
Cinerary chest with the atelier of Daedalus	Stamp seal of the oculist Marcus Ulpius Heracles	Julius Caesar	Stele of Saisis
Byzantine helmet from Egypt	Valkenburg, Writing tablet	Nimrud, Relief of Tiglath-Pileser III	Valkenburg, Catapult stones
Priestess of the 22nd Dynasty	Cyprus, Early classical portrait of a man	Vechten, Dagger	Thebes, Sahidic ostracon
Vechten, Amphora from Rhodes	A "Sidonian bottle", colored white	Saqqara, Statue of Maya and Merit	Relief of Seth and Apophis
Campana plate with a Nilotic scene	Nijmegen, Rooftile "sub Didio"	Nijmegen, oil bottle	The Great Leiden Constantine Cameo
Colijnsplaat, Votive stela to Nehalennia	Stele of Hentnefert, with Thutmose III and Amenhotep II	Valkenburg, Samian ware with inscription "iimili"	Cup with the serekh of king Djer
Boeotia, Figurine of a lady	Coin of the Kushans (imitation of a Sasanian coin)	Stele of Sety I	Vechten, Dice
De Bijland, Scabbard	Vechten, Samian ware	Smyrna, Tombstone of a retiarius named Euchrus	Valkenburg, Scabbard with POW
Carthage, Dedication to Tanit	Matilo, sherd of terra sigilata with Greek inscription ΑΘΗΝ	Vechten, Figurine of two lovers	Portrait of a mother and daughter
Vechten, Samian ware with erotic scene	Philip the Arab	Etruscan urn	Hand of a bronze statue
Valkenburg, Letter to a physician	Tombstone from Carthage, second century BCE	Nimrud, Relief with soldiers	Smyrna, Tombstone of a slave, whose master had been a centurio of IIII Scythica (EDCS-46700121)
Egyptian incense burner (New Kingdom)	Vechten, Helmet decorated with a bird of prey (detail)	Torques from Rossum	Smyrna, Dedication to Hadrian
Unidentified Pergamene ruler	Statuette of Amun	Colijnsplaat, Votive stela to Nehalennia	Giza, Statue of a miller
Deir el-Bahari, Relief of Mentuhotep II	Saqqara, Jewelry from the age of Thutmose III	Valkenburg, Figurine of Isis	Roman statuette of a dromedary
Leiden, Shield cover	Cartouche of Neuserre	The "Peel Helmet", found in the moors near Deurne	Vechten, Dedication to Minerva
Valkenburg, Buckle with Romulus and Remus	Heerlen, tombstone of Marcus Julius, soldier of V Alaudae (EDCS-11100805)	King Ninetjer, dressed for the Sed festival	Stele of Amun
Leiden, Samian ware of slaves being led away	Dish with the symbol of Nun, the primordial waters	Crispus on the the Great Leiden Constantine Cameo	Carthage, Tombstone of Batba'al, third century BCE.
Vechten, Dedication by Antistius Adventus (with text)	Old-Assyrian rhyton	Valkenburg, Profile with the destruction layer of the Batavian Revolt between Period 3 and Period 4	Thera, Head of an archaic statue
The natural color of glass is blue-green	Saqqara, Scarab of Djehuty	Valkenburg, Scabbard with soldier	Naqada II, Fish-shaped palet
Relief of Polyphemus throws a rock to Odysseus' ship	Volterra, Cinerary chest, Achilles and Troilus	Utica, Ornamental border	Achilles fighting against Memnon.
Voorburg, Rooftile with the sign X Gemina	Spoon to make balm	Vechten, Head of Serapis	Cortona, Mirror with the Dioscuri
Kalabsha, Coptic tombstone of Manna	Amenhotep III	Vechten, Fledimella inscription	Velsen, Man in the well, skull
Two lovers