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MERCHANTS, SPICES, AND LOVE LETTERS | UNCOVERING LIVES ACROSS THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN AND INDIAN OCEAN

Lecture | Marina Rustow moderated by Rachel Donadio

15/07/2025

(from left) Marina Rustow, Rachel Donadio

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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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Marina Rustow bio

Rachel Donadio bio

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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