coins, and offered much less extensive food storage facilities; and, on the
other, spacious villa units in the south-east part of the town, with plenty
of storage containers, but fewer indicators of‘urban’features. Cahill
emphasizes the complementary relationship between the two areas.
Household‘industries’, whether those associated with food production,
such as cooking, baking, andfishing; or textile production, coroplasty,
and weapons manufacture, tended to occupy locations closer to the
centre of town; but general storage, for those without residential capacity
or other communal facilities, could have been located elsewhere.^28
So it would be simplistic to connect storage capacity alone with greater
economic means. The capacity to store foodstuffs does not mean that the
better-off piled up food, while the more vulnerable went without. At
Olynthos some of the wealthier citizens, or non-citizen inhabitants,
chose not to store food inside their residential walls. However, the
owners of rural properties, like the country estates already discussed,
had very different aspirations, and probably very different expertise from
town-dwellers. The great modern wine vintages of Italy, France, Iberia,
south-eastern Europe, California, Australia, and New Zealand, came
Fig. 7.1.Olynthos: view from the South Hill towards the Toronaean Gulf, with
olive groves.
(^28) Cahill 2002, 236–88 and plate 4.
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