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Trade, Traders and the Ancient City Trade, Traders and the Ancient City TRADE, TRADERS AND THE ANCIENT CITY TRADE, TRADERS AND THE ANCIENT CITY Edited by HELEN PARKINS and CHRISTOPHER SMITH London and New York First published 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1998 selection and editorial matter Helen Parkins and Christopher Smith; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Helen Parkins and Christopher Smith and the contributors to be identified as the Authors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-97903-6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-16517-2 (Print Edition) Contents List of figures and tables vi Notes on contributors viii Preface ix List of abbreviations x 1 Time for change? Shaping the future of the ancient 1 economy HELEN PARKINS 2 The Old Assyrian merchants 15 AMÉLIE KUHRT 3 Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy 31 CHRISTOPHER SMITH 4 Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical 51 periods: some observations GOCHA R.TSETSKHLADZE 5 Ceramics and positivism revisited: Greek transport 73 amphoras and history MARK LAWALL 6 The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century BC 99 MICHAEL WHITBY 7 Land transport in Roman Italy: costs, practice and the 125 economy RAY LAURENCE 8 Trade and traders in the Roman world: scale, structure, 145 and organisation v JEREMY PATERSON 9 Trade and the city in Roman Egypt 165 RICHARD ALSTON 10 Trading gods in northern Italy 199 MARK HUMPHRIES 11 Ancient economies: models and muddles 221 JOHN K.DAVIES Index 253 Figures and tables Figures 5.1 Chian imports to Athens represented as a percentage of total 85 imports in each period 5.2 Numbers of Chian imports to Gordion compared to total 86 datable imports and the Chian imports expressed as a percentage of the total datable imports per period 9.1 Communications from Oxyrhynchus (excluding 185 Oxyrhynchite), first to sixth century AD 9.2 Communications from Oxyrhynchus (including 187 Oxyrhynchite), second century AD 9.3 Communications from Oxyrhynchus (including 188 Oxyrhynchite), third century AD 9.4 Zones of contact 190 10.1 Map of north-eastern Italy and the north-western Balkans, 205 showing the location of bureaux of the publicum portorii Illyrici, centres of commercial activity by the Barbii family of Aquileia, and centres of Isiac and Mithraic worship 10.2 Map of northern Italy showing the location of Jewish and 207 Christian communities by the early fourth century 10.3 Plan of the southern part of Aquileia, indicating the location 215 of Theodore’s church complex, the imperial horreum and the extent of the tetrarchic expansion of the city 11.1 Flow diagram of resource movement, stage 1: modified 241 household autarky 11.2 Flow diagram of resource movement, stage 2: complex 243 flows 11.3 Flow diagram of resource movement, stage 3: interactions 245 with the public economy vii Tables 9.1 Roman Egypt: traffic registered in the customs accounts 176 9.2 Roman Egypt: communities in contact with Karanis 178 Contributors Richard Alston is Lecturer in Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London. John K.Davies is Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool. Mark Humphries is Research Associate, Gesta Martyrum Romanorum Project, Department of Religions and Theology, University of Manchester. Amélie Kuhrt is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History, University College, University of London. Ray Laurence is Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading. Mark Lawall is Adjunct Professor, Classics Department, University of Manitoba. Helen Parkins is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, and Research Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Jeremy Paterson is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Newcastle. Christopher Smith is Lecturer in Ancient History, University of St Andrews. Gocha Tsetskhladze is Research Fellow in Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London. Michael Whitby is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick. Preface In any understanding of the ancient world, the trader must play a role. So much of our archaeological record is represented by goods which have moved from their point of origin to a different point of deposition; how they got there, and who carried them, is the focus of this volume. By focusing on trade and the trader however, it should not be thought that we intend this to be a wholly commercial study; all the contributors show that the exchange of goods is inseparable from social and political factors. Hence, the city; one part of the economic structure of the ancient world. Several of the chapters here were originally delivered as papers at a conference held at the University of St Andrews on 11 and 12 July 1995. We are grateful to the participants at that conference for the stimulus and excitement they provided, and to the various other scholars who have subsequently offered us papers for publication. We are also grateful to the School of Greek, Latin and Ancient History, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Classical Association for Scotland, the Foundation for Hellenic Culture, and the Carnegie Trust for financial support. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the encouragement which Professor Geoffrey Rickman has given to the editors individually, and the generous hospitality which he offered at the conference. Helen Parkins Christopher Smith Abbreviations AA Archäologischer Anzeiger AE L’Année Épigraphique Aeg Aegyptus AEMTh To Arkheologiko ergo sti Makedonia kai Thraki AHB Ancient History Bulletin AJN American Journal of Numismatics AJP American Journal of Philology ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt ASNP Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa ASP American Studies in Papyrology BASP Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists BCH Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique BIFAO Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale BS Bosporskii Sbornik (Bosporan Collection) (Moscow) BSA Annual of the British School at Athens CAH The Cambridge Ancient History CE Chronique d’Égypte CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum CQ Classical Quarterly CR Classical Review DdA Dialoghi di Archeologia DHA Dialogues d’histoire ancienne xi DP Drevnee Prichernomor’e (Ancient Black Sea Littoral: Short Bulletins of the Odessa Archaeological Society) (Odessa) EAD Exploration archéologique de Délos faite par l’Ecole Française d’Athènes FGH F.Jacoby (1923–58). Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Berlin) G&R Greece and Rome HOPE History of Political Economy IG Inscriptiones Graecae IGAIMK Izvestiya gosudarstvennoe akademii istorii material’noe kultury ILCV Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, ed. E. Diehl (Berlin, 1925–31) ILS Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, ed. H.Dessau (Berlin, 1892–1916) IOSPE Inscriptiones Antiquae Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini Graecae et Latinae IstMitt Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Istanbuler Abt.) JEA Journal of Egyptian Archaeology JEL Journal of Economic Literature JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies JJP Journal of Juristic Papyrology JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology JRS Journal of Roman Studies KSIA Kratkie soobsheniya instituta arkheologii Akademia Nauk SSSR MBAH Münsterische Beiträge zur antiken Handelsgeschichte MIA Materialy i issledovaniya po arkheologii SSSR ML R.Meiggs and D.Lewis. A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC (Oxford 1969) OJA Oxford Journal of Archaeology xii PAS Peterburgskii Arkheologicheskii Vestnik (Petersburg Archaeological Herald) (St Petersburg) PBSR Papers of the British School at Rome PCPS Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society PdP La parola del passato PZ Prähistorische Zeitschrift RAL Rendiconti della classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche dell’Accademia dei Lincei RCRF Acta Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta REA Revue des études anciennes REconAnth Research in Economic Anthropology RLA Reallexikon der Assyriologie (Berlin, 1928) SA Sovetskaya Arkheologiya (Soviet Archaeology) (Moscow) SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum St. Etr. Studi Etruschi TAPA Transactions of the American Philological Association TCL Textes cunéiformes du Louvre TC I Tablettes cappadociennes, publiées avec inventaire et tables. TCL 4 (Paris, 1920) TTAED Türk Tarih Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Dergisi VDI Vestnik Drevnei Istorii (Journal of Ancient History) (Moscow) ZA Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete ZPE Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 1 Time for change? Shaping the future of the ancient economy Helen Parkins Crisis, what crisis? This collection of papers, taken from a 1995 conference with the same working title, brings together work on two of the currently most
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