Urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world

427 Pages·2016·15.26 MB·English

by  Flohr

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OXFORD STUDIES ON THE ROMAN ECONOMY
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ALAN BOWMAN ANDREW WILSON
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OXFORD STUDIES ON THE ROMAN ECONOMY
This innovative monograph series reflects a vigorous revival of interest
in the ancient economy, focusing on the Mediterranean world under
Romanrule(c.100BCtoAD350).Carefullyquantifiedarchaeologicaland
documentary data are integrated to help ancient historians, economic
historians,andarchaeologiststhinkabouteconomicbehaviourcollectively
ratherthanfromseparateperspectives.Thevolumesincludeasubstantial
comparative element and thus will be of interest to historians of other
periodsandplaces.
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Urban Craftsmen
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Preface
Thechaptersinthisvolumehavetheirorigininaworkshoporganizedbythe
OxfordRomanEconomyProjectandheldatWolfsonCollege,Oxford,United
Kingdom, 21–23 July 2011. The workshop, entitled Beyond Marginality:
Craftsmen,TradersandtheSocio-EconomicHistoryofRomanUrbanCommu-
nities,wasfundedbytheEuropeanScienceFoundationasanESFexploratory
workshop,andbroughttogetherresearchersfromninedifferentcountrieswith
theaimofexploringthetopicofRomanurbancraftsandtradesandtobuild
bridgesbetweendifferentnationalscholarlytraditionsanddisciplines(ancient
history,archaeology,epigraphy,papyrology).Liketheworkshopfromwhichit
originates, this volume focuses on four key themes: the history of research,
economicstrategiesofcraftsmenandtraders,thepositionofcraftsandtradein
urbanspace,andcraftsmenandtradersintheirsocialenvironment.
We thank the ESF for the exploratory workshop grant that made the
workshop possible, all the speakers who took part and subsequently contrib-
uted papers, and also Prof. Kristin Kuutma (Helsinki), who acted as the ESF
observer and rapporteur. We are grateful to the staff of Wolfson College for
their practical assistance during the workshop, and also to All Souls College
for the provision of accommodation for some speakers. As ever, we are
extremely grateful to Baron Lorne Thyssen for his continued support of the
OxfordRomanEconomyProject.
AndrewWilson
MikoFlohr
August2015
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Contents
ListofContributors ix
ListofFigures xiii
ListofTables xvii
ListofAbbreviations xviii
Introduction 1
MikoFlohrandAndrewWilson
I APPROACHES
1. RomanCraftsmenandTraders:TowardsanIntellectualHistory 23
MikoFlohrandAndrewWilson
2. Twentieth-CenturyItalianScholarshiponRoman
Craftsmen,Traders,andtheirProfessionalOrganizations 55
CarlaSalvaterraandAlessandroCristofori
3. TheArchaeologyofRomanUrbanWorkshops:AFrenchApproach? 77
Jean-PierreBrun
II STRATEGIES
4. MercantileSpecializationandTradingCommunities:Economic
StrategiesinRomanMaritimeTrade 97
CandaceRice
5. DrivingForcesforSpecialization:Market,LocationFactors,
ProductivityImprovements 115
KaiRuffing
6. FashionableFootwear:CraftsmenandConsumersinthe
North-WestProvincesoftheRomanEmpire 132
CarolvanDriel-Murray
7. ContextualizingtheOperationalSequence:PompeianBakeries
asaCaseStudy 153
NicolasMonteix
III PEOPLE
8. Disciplina,patrocinium,nomen:TheBenefitsofApprenticeship
intheRomanWorld 183
ChristelFreu
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9. Women,Trade,andProductioninUrbanCentres
ofRomanItaly 200
LenaLarssonLovén
10. FreedmenandAgencyinRomanBusiness 222
WimBroekaert
11. TheSocialOrganizationofCommerceandCraftsinAncient
Arles:Heterogeneity,Hierarchy,andPatronage 254
NicolasTran
12. HierapolisanditsProfessionalAssociations:AComparative
Analysis 278
IliasArnaoutoglou
IV SPACE
13. WorkingTogether:ClustersofArtisansintheRomanCity 301
PenelopeGoodman
14. SpatialConcentrationandDispersalofRomanTextileCrafts 334
KerstinDroß-Krüpe
15. IndustryandCommerceintheCityofAquincum 352
OrsolyaLáng
16. ThePottersofAncientSagalassosRevisited 377
JeroenPoblome
Index 405
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List of Contributors
IliasN.ArnaoutoglougraduatedattheFacultyofLaw,AristotelianUniversity
ofThessaloniki.HeholdsaPh.D.inancientGreekhistoryfromtheUniversity
of Glasgow (1993). He was assistant editor for the Lexicon of Greek Personal
Names, Oxford, from 1994 to 1999. Currently, he is senior researcher in the
Research Centre for the History of Greek Law, Academy of Athens. He has
written extensively on Hellenistic and Greco-Roman associations, ancient
Greeklegalhistoryandinstitutions,andinstitutionsinpre-nineteenth-century
Turkish-occupiedGreece.
Wim Broekaert is a postdoctoral researcher in Ancient History at Ghent
University. He has published widely on many aspects of Roman trade. His
first monograph, Navicularii et negotiantes: A Prosopographical Study of
RomanMerchantsandShippers,waspublishedin2013.
Jean-Pierre Brun is a professor at the Collège de France in Paris, and, until
2012,directoroftheCentreJeanBérardatNaples.Heisarenownedspecialist
inthearchaeologyofRomanagricultureandcrafts,andhaspublishedwidely
on olive-oil and wine production in the Greco-Roman world, and on urban
craftsinRomanItaly.
Alessandro Cristofori is Professor of Ancient History at the University of
Bologna, formerly Professor of Roman History at the University of Calabria.
His research has focused both onthe epigraphy of crafts in Roman Italy and
on the historiography of craftsmen and traders in twentieth-century Italy. In
2004,hepublishedamonographontheepigraphyofcraftsinPicenum(Non
ArmaVirumque:leoccupazioninell’epigrafiadelPiceno).
CarolvanDriel-Murray(LeidenUniversity)isAssistantProfessorofProvin-
cialRomanArchaeologyattheUniversityofLeiden.Herresearchfocuseson
Roman and medieval leathercraft, Roman military equipment, and gender
issuesinrelationtotheRomanarmy.ShehaspublishedextensivelyonRoman
leatherwork and footwear from archaeological excavations, skin-processing
technologies,andtheroleoffootwearinritualcomplexes.Reconstructionand
experiment figure prominently in her research into the structure and use of
militaryequipmentsuchastentsandsaddles.
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe studied classical archaeology, ancient history, and
business administration at Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany. Her
thesis, supervised by Kai Ruffing and Hans-Joachim Drexhage at Marburg,