The economics of the Roman stone trade / Ben Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Ben.

Series:

Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy

Oxford studies on the Roman economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stone carving--Rome--History.

Stone carving.

Rome--Economic conditions.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Russell provides an examination of the production, distribution and use of carved stone objects in the Roman world. Focusing on the market for stone and its supply, he offers an assessment of the practicalities of stone transport and how the relationship between producer and customer functioned even over considerable distances.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""The Economics of the Roman Stone Trade""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Note to the Reader""; ""1 Introduction""; ""MARBLE STUDIES""; ""STONE IN ECONOMIC STUDIES""; ""AIMS AND OBJECTIVES""; ""2 The Market for Stone""; ""DEMAND FOR STONE""; ""The character of demand""; ""'Foreign rocks'""; ""Focus of demand""; ""SOURCES OF DEMAND""; ""Imperial investment""; ""Non-imperial investment in building""; ""The sarcophagus evidence""; ""SPENDING ON STONE""

""Costs of architectural elements""""Costs of building projects""; ""Costs outside the construction industry""; ""Labour estimates""; ""The Price Edict""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""3 Quarrying""; ""IMPERIAL QUARRY OWNERSHIP AND""; ""Imperial quarrying in the Eastern Desert""; ""Imperial quarrying elsewhere""; ""Contractors and imperial quarrying""; ""Changes in the system?""; ""Coordinating supply""; ""PRIVATE AND MUNICIPAL QUARRIES""; ""Ownership arrangements""; ""Organization of work""; ""Mixed ownership""; ""QUARRY DISTRIBUTION""; ""Quarries and urbanization""; ""Outlying quarries""

""Accessibility""""CHRONOLOGY OF QUARRYING""; ""Continuity and intensification""; ""The opening of new quarries""; ""Decorative stone quarrying: the East""; ""Decorative stone quarrying: the West""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""4 Stone Transport""; ""OVERLAND TRANSPORT""; ""Capacity""; ""Timings""; ""Logistics""; ""Costs""; ""RIVER TRANSPORT""; ""Timings""; ""Vessels""; ""OVERSEAS TRANSPORT AND THE SHIPWRECK EVIDENCE""; ""Costs""; ""Shipwrecks""; ""Chronology""; ""Supplying Rome by sea""; ""Regional patterns""; ""The question of specialization""; ""CONNECTIVITY""; ""Direct and indirect commerce""

""Origins and destinations""""Transshipment""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""5 Distribution Patterns""; ""MODELLING DISTRIBUTION""; ""Layers of economic activity""; ""The consumer and the selection of stone""; ""DISTRIBUTION OF STONE IN ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXTS""; ""Case study 1: Asia Minor""; ""Case study 2: the Levant""; ""Case study 3: Spain""; ""Case study 4: Gaul""; ""Case study 5: the Rhineland and Britain""; ""The impact of geography""; ""Building contractors and the selection of stone""; ""SARCOPHAGUS DISTRIBUTION AND MATERIALS FOR STATUARY""; ""Sarcophagus distribution in the East""

""Sarcophagus distribution in the West""""Materials for statuary""; ""`Overseas agenciesÂ? and customer choice""; ""IMPERIAL REDISTRIBUTION""; ""Imperial projects at Rome""; ""Imperial projects outside of Rome""; ""The imperial transport system""; ""The nature of imperial intervention""; ""Imperial stones on the non-imperial market""; ""Imperial gifts""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""6 Building and Stone Supply""; ""THE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT""; ""Managing building projects""; ""Specialist contractors""; ""ORDERING FROM THE QUARRIES""; ""The logistics of commissioning""; ""Documentary evidence""

""Finds from the quarries""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-259052-9

0-19-176519-8

0-19-163040-3

OCLC:

874147949