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

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