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This special showcase provides an insight into the society and culture of the eastern Mediterranean region through clay seals from Egypt (from the holdings of the Papyrus Collection/Austrian National Library) and Byzantine lead seals (private collection of A.-K. Wassiliou-Seibt).

This exhibition shows icons from the holdings of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Austria. The icons were acquired in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Some of them were donated to the Metropolis by important patrons of the time and bear beautiful witness to Greek culture in the imperial city of Vienna at that time….