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MERCHANTS, SPICES, AND LOVE LETTERS | UNCOVERING LIVES ACROSS THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN AND INDIAN OCEAN
Acropolis Museum | Auditorium "Dimitrios Pantermalis"
Lecture by Marina Rustow, PhD, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Princeton University, Director the Princeton Geniza Lab.
Moderated by Rachel Donadio, Journalist & Public Programme Advisor
DATE
15 July, 6:30 pm
FREE ENTRANCE
In English with simultaneous translation in Greek.
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The Cairo Geniza—hundreds of thousands of texts from an eleventh-century Egyptian synagogue—offers an intimate view of labor, trade, taxation, food, textiles, and daily life across the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, in a period studied mostly from the perspective of Christian Europe.
Merchants, Spices, and Love Letters: Uncovering Lives across the Medieval Mediterranean and Indian Ocean a lecture by Marina Rustow as part of the public programme of the exhibition Allspice | Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures highlights discoveries from the last five years.
Acropolis Museum
15 Dionysiou Areopagitou St.,
Athens
Acropolis Museum, Dionysiou Areopagitou, Athens, Greece
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