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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1554300, member: 26302&quot;]I had seen the Diocletian reforms site before, as well as printed versions. I also know there is on the internet some pages of prices in Pompeii of goods and services. The eruption and subsequent covering of the city left prices on chalkboards and the like intact, so we have that resource. </p><p><br /></p><p>The warning I would give about Diocletians edict prices would be we know they didn&#039;t work, that real prices climbed, much like the US trying to dictate prices in the 70&#039;s. However, we do not know how much each good was really selling for versus edict prices, so use that chart as a baseline, knowing it was not true in practice, but theoretical. The problem with using Pompeii prices is that Pompeii was a resort town, and prices there were higher than in most of the Roman world. It would be like going to Key Largo and using their prices as representative of the rest of the US.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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