Economy of Pompeii
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Economy of Pompeii
Work?
Atrium (VII.1.46)
Types of Economic Activity
AGRICULTURE,Craft and Commerce, Shops and Markets, Bars
and Inns
Evidence
• Preserved buildings and their contents
• Inscriptions
• Images
• Ancient Literary sources
• Analogies with later societies
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)
River or Sea?
North of Marine Gate (Mooring blocks for ships???)
Fertility of Campania
• Of everything, not just in Italy, but in the whole world, the region of Campania is the most beautiful. Nothing more temperate than its climate: indeed, its spring flowers blossom twice. Nothing is more fertile than its land: consequently there is said to be a competition between Liber and Ceres.
• (Florus, Epitome 1.16)
Farming
• 140+ villas
Missing evidence- grain cultivation on small farms/
Vesuvius
Wine
• For around Vesuvius is the Murgentine vine, a very strong species from Sicily which some call Pompeian, productive only in fertile soil, like the Horconian variety, which is grown only in Campania.
(Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 14.35)
Villa Pisanella (Boscoreale) (1876-99) 130x 82 ft.
Boscoreale ( Villa Pisanella)
• 72 +Dolia (12 for other uses)
• Cella vinaria
• Fermentation=9 days
to many years.
Paintings
Boscoreale Treasure
• 108 silver vessels and 1,037 gold coins
62 acres /24,000 gallons
Villa Regina at Boscoreale (1978-80)
2.5-5 acres/2,600 gallons
80 species of plants(olive,almond, fig, apricot,
cherry, walnut)
Villa of the Mysteries
Villa of the Mysteries
Villa of the Mysteries
Wine Press
Torcularium
Amphorae
• Spain, Italy, Gaul, Switzerland, Germany, England, Tunisia (Holconii/Eumachii)
Olive oil
Wilhemina Jashemsky
• 10% of town=cultivation
Agriculture Within the town
• Reg. II.5 ( Forum Boarium?)
• 2,014 vine root cavities/ 58 trees/ wine press
• Triclinia
Flowers (Regions I and II)Orchard ( Region I)
House of the Ship Europa, (I.15.3)Market Garden
• 90x 180 ft.
• Vines,
• Fruit and nut trees
Kitchen garden
House of the Sarno Lararium
• Onions