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