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.

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

Acropolis Museum | Auditorioum”Dimitrios Pantermalis”

Lecture| 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

LECTURE

15 July, 18:30

FREE ADMISSION

In English with simultaneous Greek translation