The Ancient Greek Economy. Markets, Households and City-States

266 MARK L. LAWALL (Van Alfen 2011c: 217–24), and no wonder consumers making small purchases are often depicted in textual and v ...

TRANSPORT AMPHORAS AND MARKET PRACTICES 267 Amphoras in Markets: An Historical Perspective Various characteristics of amphoras, ...

268 MARK L. LAWALL by multiple middlemen. Quantities involved might range from a cargo of a few thousand amphoras to a small pur ...

TRANSPORT AMPHORAS AND MARKET PRACTICES 269 Cargoes themselves from shipwrecks attest to at least a few hundred jars from one lo ...

270 MARK L. LAWALL their contents, is clearly indicated especially by finds in non-Greek burials and settlement sites. Fourth th ...

TRANSPORT AMPHORAS AND MARKET PRACTICES 271 any transaction by numbers of containers could be a more accurate process (Wallace 2 ...

272 MARK L. LAWALL seeing a shift from a greater role for individual interest in production and con- sumption to a greater struc ...

TRANSPORT AMPHORAS AND MARKET PRACTICES 273 Uncertainty in markets and a network-dependent response to such prob- lems do not di ...

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PART IV MARKETS, COMMODITIES AND TRADE NETWORKS ...

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277 12 AEGEAN-LEVANTINE TRADE, 600–300 BCE Commodities, Consumers, and the Problem of Autarkeia Peter van Alfen Introduction A f ...

278 PETER VAN ALfEN the joys of shopping:  there was, in Athens especially, a delightful variety of things to be owned or consum ...

AEGEAN-LEVANTINE TRADE, 600–300 BCE 279 plate of Paphlagonian acorns – or, at least, aspiring to do so, whether urbanite or not. ...

280 PETER VAN ALfEN One way to detect movement is to look beyond the immediate chronologi- cal boundaries I have set, roughly 60 ...

281 Table 12.2. The Date and Origin of Commodities in Aegean-Levantine Trade, c. 600–300 BC ENGLISH ID TEXT ARCH DAT E ORIGIN CO ...

282 Cinnabar (vermilion) mercury sulphide G/S? yes PP Levant yes Cinnamon Cinnamomum zeylanicum G/S PP? Far East Copper (bronze) ...

283 Hides (various) G/S BA? ubiquitous Indigo Indigofera tinctoria S? yes BA? Far East Iron iron G/S yes IA IIB ubiquitous Ivory ...

284 Pearls G yes PP Arabia? Pepper Piper spp . G yes PP? Far East Perfume (various) G/S BA ubiquitous yes Pomegranate Punica gra ...

285 Terebinth Pistacia spp . G/S yes BA Levant, Aegean Terracottas N/A yes PP Aegean? yes Textiles (various) G/S yes BA ubiquito ...