ABSTRACT

Trade, exchange and commerce touched the lives of everyone in antiquity, especially those who lived in urban areas. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City addresses the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy.
Trade, Traders and the Ancient City employs the most recent archaeological, papyrological, epigraphic and literary evidence to present an innovative and timely analysis of the importance and influence of trade in the ancient world.

chapter 2|15 pages

The Old Assyrian merchants 1

chapter 5|27 pages

Ceramics and positivism revisited

Greek transport amphoras and history

chapter 7|20 pages

Land transport in Roman Italy

Costs, practice and the economy 1

chapter 8|19 pages

Trade and traders in the Roman world

Scale, structure, and organisation

chapter 9|35 pages

Trade and the city in Roman Egypt

chapter 10|22 pages

Trading gods in northern Italy

chapter 11|32 pages

Ancient economies

Models and muddles