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- Flemestad, Peder, et al.
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Observations on the Terminology of Textile Tools in Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices
- 2017
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Ingår i: Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe 1000 BC – AD 1000. - 9781609621124 ; , s. 256-277
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Edictum Diocletiani et collegarum: The so-called Edict of Maximum Prices was issued in AD 301 as part of a comprehensive administrative and financial reform released in the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Diocletian came to power in AD 284 after a period in Roman history traditionally understood as a time of ‘crisis’, produced by a series of inter-related factors: a frequent turnover of emperors; problems with the economy in terms of production and coinage; incursions by various tribes on the edges of the empire; internal unrest; the rise of Christianity and periodic persecutions. Diocletian’s actions were arguably pragmatic responses to the situation he found the empire in on his accession. The Edict should be seen alongside a number of reforms during his reign and is regarded by some scholars as the most important inscription of Late Antiquity. Several editions and translations have been published thus far. In addition to the continuous publication of new finds of the text itself, commentaries on different aspects of the Edict abound.The main purpose of the Edict, at least according to its own preface, was to fix maximum prices for a wide range of services and products that had constantly been jeopardized by the avarice of some merchants and traders who were known to ask for prices up to 8 times the usual amount. According to the text itself, the main beneficiaries of the Edict were the soldiers of the Roman army with a fixed salary that would not have allowed them to purchase the above-mentioned products and services at such excessive prices. The prices mentioned regard transportation, food, wages for craftsmen as well as special goods such as marble and numerous clothing items and textiles. All in all, around 1300 items, wages, and services are mentioned. In detail, studies on specific materials mentioned in the Edict, like glass and marble, are well covered as are those on the different areas of production, services, and costs for transport. Some aspects of ancient textile technology and clothing have been treated in greater detail, such as the different types of purple mentioned, wool, clothing and cloth, as well as specific terminological questions related to clothes. Despite this interest in the range and types of clothing, scholarship has not yet focussed on the textile tools mentioned in the Edict. This contribution proposes to fill part of this gap.
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- Flemestad, Peder, et al.
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En khlamys-klædt efeb? – klæder skaber folk
- 2023
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Ingår i: Aigis. Nordisk tidsskrift for klassiske studier. - 1901-6859. ; Suppl. VII:Festskrift til Thomas Heine Nielsen 2023, s. 1-17
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- Flemestad, Peder, et al.
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Sabellic Textile Terminology
- 2017
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Ingår i: Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe 1000 BC – AD 1000. - 9781609621124 ; , s. 210-227
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite numerous recent studies of Italic textiles and textile production etc., no systematic study has so far been attempted regarding the textile terminology of Italic languages besides Latin. The present study seeks to remedy this, making a first step into the textile terminology of Sabellic languages, predominantly Oscan and Umbrian. There are two types of sources for Sabellic textile terminology: inscriptions and glosses in Greek and Latin literature. Both are, however, fraught with uncertainties. The glosses, as for example seen in the case of Etruscan, may have been misunderstood or misinterpreted and should be treated with due caution, and there is considerable debate on many of the epigraphically attested terms and significant doubt about their precise interpretation. Glosses are especially problematic, since they have been transmitted to us through a succession of manuscripts. As noted by Clackson, it is only through epigraphy that we can access the texts, and therefore the terms themselves, directly. Sometimes, however, the glosses are indeed correct, making their investigation important. The extant Sabellic corpus, although minuscule compared to Latin, is nevertheless linguistically invaluable and offers complementary evidence of the Indo-European and Italic textile lexicon, although many aspects of the various Sabellic languages are notoriously difficult to interpret and remain a matter of debate. The present contribution does not claim to endorse the interpretation of the most doubtful cases, but includes them in order to provide an overview of Sabellic terms that have been suggested by scholars as belonging to the domain of textiles.
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- Spantidaki, Stella, et al.
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Sails of the Athenian Trireme
- 2023
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn, 22 - 26 May 2018. Sessions 6–8 – Single Contributions : Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World - Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World. - 9783969291504 - 9783969291498 ; 55, s. 33-35
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