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    The Economics of the Roman Stone Trade by Russell, Ben;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 19 August 2019

    • ISBN 9780198841753
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages480 pages
    • Size 234x155x24 mm
    • Weight 712 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 98 in-text illustrations
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    Short description:

    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.

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    Long description:

    The use of stone in vast quantities is a ubiquitous and defining feature of the material culture of the Roman world. In this volume, Russell provides a new and wide-ranging examination of the production, distribution, and use of carved stone objects throughout the Roman world, including how enormous quantities of high-quality white and polychrome marbles were moved all around the Mediterranean to meet the demand for exotic material.

    The long-distance supply of materials for artistic and architectural production, not to mention the trade in finished objects like statues and sarcophagi, is one of the most remarkable features of the Roman world. Despite this, it has never received much attention in mainstream economic studies. Focusing on the market for stone and its supply, the administration, distribution, and chronology of quarrying, and the practicalities of stone transport, Russell offers a detailed assessment of the Roman stone trade and how the relationship between producer and customer functioned even over considerable distances.

    Russell's thought-provoking new study of the economics of the Roman stone trade in the first three centuries AD reassesses the evidence for the structure and organisation of this trade, tracing the production process from the quarry to the final consumer ... [an] important and timely reappraisal of the Roman stone trade.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Figures
    List of Tables
    List of Abbreviations
    Note to the Reader
    Introduction
    The Market for Stone
    Quarrying
    Stone Transport
    Distribution Patterns
    Building and Stone Supply
    The Sarcophagus Trade
    Statue Production
    Final Remarks
    Bibliography
    Index

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