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

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