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