Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Maps xv
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Let’s Settle Up 26
8. 2 A World Full of Things 67
9. 3 Farmer Soterichos Goes to Market 117
10. 4 Eight Jobs 171
11. 5 The 90 Percent and Their Money 212
12. 6 The Load-Carrying Mother 259
13. 7 The Bottom Line 291
14. Weights and Measures of the Roman World 313
15. Appendix 1. A World Full of Things: Consumption Data 315
16. Appendix 2. Smallholder Farms and Their Outputs 321
17. Appendix 3. Cost of Living Calculations 343
18. Appendix 4. Tebtunis grapheion, Transaction Types and Averages 347
19. Appendix 5. Human Skeletal Remains, Italy and Britain: Data and Bibliography 349
20. Notes 355
21. Bibliography 409
22. Index 471