The Material Life of Roman Slaves by Sandra R. Joshel & Lauren Hackworth Petersen

Author:Sandra R. Joshel & Lauren Hackworth Petersen [Joshel, Sandra R. & Petersen, Lauren Hackworth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Classics, Ancient, Rome, Slavery, Archaeology, Slavery & Emancipation
ISBN: 9780521191647
Google: LqUZBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0521139570
Goodreads: 20017025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-29T23:00:00+00:00

115. Plan of the fullery on Via degli Augustali (V.7.3) with basins in gray, Ostia. Drawing by Glynnis Fawkes. (After Pietrogrande 1976, fig. 15.)

116. Fullery on Via degli Augustali (V.7.3), Ostia. Photo: authors (su concessione del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali – Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma).

If the size and layout of the fullery on Via degli Augustali (V.7.3) prompt scholars to see it as a factory and as an example of rationalized production, such descriptions are difficult to apply to the fullery on Via della Fullonica, at II.11.1 (Fig. 117).86 If anything, this fullery seems like an overstuffed workshop. Like the fullery on Via degli Augustali (V.7.3), there are no indications of living space, no stairs to an upper floor, and no areas dedicated to domestic activities in the fullery at II.11.1, so this, too, was a production hall. However, its total area (429 m2) approximates the area of the largest fullery at Pompeii, the household Fullery of Vesonius Primus (415 m2) (VI.14.21–22) (see Fig. 91). Yet, at the same time, the fullery at II.11.1 packed more equipment and workers into its space than either the Fullery of Vesonius Primus (ten stalls and three basins) or the huge fullery on Via degli Augustali did into theirs: while the latter fullery had thirty-four stalls, the fullery at II.11.1 squeezed forty-two stalls into a considerably smaller space (although II.11.1 had three basins, not four as in V.7.3).

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