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<p>[QUOTE="Limes, post: 4605420, member: 101013"]Very interesting to read! Thank you for posting this. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I have no idea about Babylonian prices, but I would like to share something interesting regarding prices in Roman times. There's probably lots of information available about what things would have cost in those days, but as a coincidence I'm now reading the book by Mary Beard on Pompeii, which contains some interesting info on prices found in Pompeii. According to tablets of a banker (?) found in Pompeii in 1875, a mule was sold to for 520 sestertii (130 denarii), a certain slave for 6252 sestertii (1563 denarii!), and according to other findings, a visit to the local brothel one denarius. That slave would have been quite expensive, if I may cuely say so, as according to other sources, a slave could have been bought for 205 and 600 denarii.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Limes, post: 4605420, member: 101013"]Very interesting to read! Thank you for posting this. Well, I have no idea about Babylonian prices, but I would like to share something interesting regarding prices in Roman times. There's probably lots of information available about what things would have cost in those days, but as a coincidence I'm now reading the book by Mary Beard on Pompeii, which contains some interesting info on prices found in Pompeii. According to tablets of a banker (?) found in Pompeii in 1875, a mule was sold to for 520 sestertii (130 denarii), a certain slave for 6252 sestertii (1563 denarii!), and according to other findings, a visit to the local brothel one denarius. That slave would have been quite expensive, if I may cuely say so, as according to other sources, a slave could have been bought for 205 and 600 denarii.[/QUOTE]
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