This paper aims to assess the scale of Roman wine exports to Eastern regions such as Arabia and India. Wine was the most important commodity exported by Romans and used (along with coins) to buy valuable items such as spices, pearls and silk. While the importance of silver and gold ...
(Show more)This paper aims to assess the scale of Roman wine exports to Eastern regions such as Arabia and India. Wine was the most important commodity exported by Romans and used (along with coins) to buy valuable items such as spices, pearls and silk. While the importance of silver and gold coins in such a trade has been deeply investigated by scholars, the role of payments in kind has been largely underestimated. The combined analysis of different kinds of documentary evidence available to us can make it possible to have a better idea of the functioning of the international trade with Arabia and India.
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