0415165172.Routledge.Trade.Traders.and.the.Ancient.City.May.1998.pdf

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

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reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by

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ISBN 0-203-97903-6 Master e-book ISBN

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Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

viii

Preface

List of abbreviations

1 Time for change? Shaping the future of the ancient

economy

HELEN PARKINS

2 The Old Assyrian merchants

AMÉLIE KUHRT

3 Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy

CHRISTOPHER SMITH

4 Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical

periods: some observations

GOCHA R.TSETSKHLADZE

5 Ceramics and positivism revisited: Greek transport

amphoras and history

MARK LAWALL

6 The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century BC

MICHAEL WHITBY

7 Land transport in Roman Italy: costs, practice and the

economy

RAY LAURENCE

125

8 Trade and traders in the Roman world: scale, structure,

and organisation

145

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