Marchands romains de textiles de luxe: barbaricarii, sericarii, purpurarii
Roman merchants of luxury textiles: barbaricarii, sericarii, purpurarii

Summary/Abstract: The author investigates a prosopraphical sample containing all recognizable individuals involved, in one way or another, in the luxury textile trade: gold embroidery, silk and purple. Dealers and tailors of luxurious/high quality textiles had their own distinctive names and were heavily concentrated in Rome, in the Vicus Tuscus, the expensive shopping area of Imperial Rome. Some dealers are epigraphically attested in other places than their homeplaces.

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