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Autore |
Russell Ben |
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Titolo |
The economics of the Roman stone trade / / Ben Russell |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-176519-8 |
0-19-163040-3 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (472 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy |
Oxford studies on the Roman economy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Stone carving - Rome - History |
Rome Economic conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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""; |
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