Trade, Traders and the Ancient CityHelen Parkins, Christopher Smith 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. |
Contents
| 1973 | |
The Old Assyrian merchants | 1990 |
Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy | 1995 |
Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical periods some observations | |
Ceramics and positivism revisited Greek transport amphoras and history | |
The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century | |
Land transport in Roman Italy costs practice and the economy | |
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Trade, Traders and the Ancient City Helen Parkins,Christopher Smith,Director Christopher Smith No preview available - 2012 |
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activity Agora agricultural Alexandria Alston amphoras Anatolia ancient economy antiquity Aquileia archaeological archaic artisans Ashur Athenian Athens attested Attica barley Black Sea littoral Bosporan kingdom Bosporus Brashinskii Cambridge Campania cent central Italy centres century BC Chian amphoras Chian imports Chios Christian classical coinage coins colonies commercial communities complex consumption cults debate decoration Demosthenes Duncan-Jones economic elite Etruria Etruscan evidence example Excavations exchange exports Fayum fifth century figures fineware fourth century Garnsey Gordion grain trade Greece Greek cities Greek colonisation inscriptions Italian Italy jars Kanesh Karanis land transport Lawall London major Mediterranean merchant metics Murlo northern Italy Old Assyrian Oxyrhynchus pattern period political Pontic Pontus population pottery production region Ridgway road role Roman Egypt Roman empire Roman Italy Rome Russian Sallares settlement significant sixth slaves social Society sources suggests Tebtunis terracotta trade networks transport costs Tsetskhladze urban village wheat wine