Money, Markets, Service industries

Roman Coins

Pompeii

• IX.9 6-7

• Herculaneum

Market Days

• CIL IV 8863• Day Markets

• Saturn Pompeii/Nuceria

• Sun Atella/Nola/ --Cumae---

• Moon Cumae

• Mars Puteoli

• Mercury Rome

• Jove Capua

• Venus

Macellum

Other Forum marketing

Julia Felix

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Pie seller

Pompeii prices ( 6 or 7 sesterces per day) CIL IV 4888

• Bread 6 asses ( annual income 2500 s.)

• Cabbage 2

• Beetroot 1

• Mustard 1

• Mint 1

• Salt 1

Brothels (futuo)

Lupanar

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Bars and Inns

Bars and Inns

Bar of Lucius Vetutius Placidius

• 1600 coins ( 585 sesterces)

Bar of Asellina

Over here!/No it’s mine!/Whoever wants it should take it. Oceanus come over here and drink!

(Bar of Salvius)

“I win!”/ “It’s two not three.”

I don’t want to __with Myrtale

Inn of Hermes I.1.6-9

Graffitti

• I hope you get punished for your lies, innkeeper, you sell water and you drink the pure wine yourself

• CIL IV 3948

Imports (terra sigillata) (90 packed and unused bowls andlamps from Gaul

Exports?

Port

• Nola, Nuceria and Acherrae have as their port Pompeii on the River Sarno, which transports goods in both directions.

(Strabo, Geography 5.4.8)