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To: Openurmind
As a mostly irrelevant sidebar, the House of the Vettii in Pompeii was over a century old when it was buried by Vesuvius, but at that time was owned by a couple of freedmen. The banking system in the Roman Empire consisted of private lenders (even military campaigns sometimes/often got called off due to financing trouble) and a few houses down the street, the home of one of those private bankers was found to contain fragments of the lending records. The Vettii owed him money. :^D

22 posted on 06/24/2021 6:58:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Heh... “investigating identity” ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiXXnWWToqM


23 posted on 06/24/2021 7:06:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Finds like that are priceless to history showing ancient commerce and culture. Like finding merchant shipping manifests on cuneiform clay tablets in Mesopotamia, or in a trading city along the silk road. Pretty cool stuff.

Thank you!


24 posted on 06/24/2021 7:57:29 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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