Navicularii et negotiantes : a prosopographical study of Roman merchants and shippers / Wim Broekaert.

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Broekaert, Wim [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Rahden/Westf. : VML, Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2013.
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564 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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      The volume provides a prosopography of Roman businessmen involved in business in the western part of the Mediterranean and present in epigraphy, mainly in the shape of tituli picti, amphorae stoppers, and anchors, but also in monumental epigraphy. This limits the chronological range of this analysis to the final two centuries of the Roman Republic and the first three of the Imperial Age. The book is not designed to be read from front to cover, but as a starting point or point of reference for anyone working on the nature of Roman business. It provides data on commercial partnerships, professional specialisation, family firms, the structure of agency as well as the close relationship between production and distribution. The volume is organised by the various types of merchants, such as negotiatores, negotiantes, mercatores, nautae, utriclarii, navicularii, naucleri, propolae, poletai, emporoi, kapeloi, vinarii, frumentarii and olearii. This is followed by chapters on the three main types of small epigraphic sources and an index of names.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
      Contents
      • Introduction
      • Using the prosopograhy
      • Monumental epigraphy
      • Tituli picti, Stoppers and anchors
      • Negotiatores and negotiantes Introduction
      • Etymology, terminology and distribution
      • The semantics of negotiator and negotiari
      • The semiotics of negotiator and negotiari
      • Catalogue
      • Mercatores
      • Etymology and distribution
      • The semantics of mercator and mercari
      • Nautae
      • Nauta as a real passe-partout in Latin literature
      • Nauta in epigraphy
      • Utriclarii
      • Navicularii and naucleri
      • Navicularius and nauclerus : the problems of etymology
      • The semantics of navicularius and nauclerus
      • Navicularius in Roman legal sources
      • Navicularius versus nauclerus
      • Propolae and ... K(üXr]tai) Introduction
      • E... ssnopoi and K(XJtr)Xoi
      • Vinarii
      • Frumentarii
      • Olearii and diffusores olearii Introduction
      • Merchants mentioned in tituli picti
      • Tituli picti on oil amphorae
      • Tituli picti on amphorae containing fish products
      • Tituli picti on wine amphorae
      • Tituli picti and monumental epigraphy
      • Merchants mentioned on amphorae stoppers
      • Ship-owners mentioned on anchors
      • Miscellaneous merchants and shippers
      • Bibliography
      • Index of subjects
      • Index of name.
      ISBN
      • 9783867572569 ((hd. bd.))
      • 3867572569 ((hd. bd.))
      LCCN
      2014445455
      OCLC
      848774289
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