Pozzuoli

The temple's columns, now in fact thought to be the remains of the macellum or marketplace of the town of Puteoli (modern-day Pozzuoli), were already famous in geological circles for the rings that scarred them, caused by marble-boring marine molluscs that had lived on their surface.

Tras presentar las diversas actiones que teoricamente un comerciante podia llevar a cabo para proteger sus in tereses, se centra principalmente en los medios oficiales y extraoficiales que los mercaderes de Puteoli podian aplicar frente a un companero fraudulento o ante una transaccion injusta.

Das letzte Kapitel ist der--in Puteoli angesiedelten--Begegnung mit dem Redelehrer Agamemnon gewidmet und stellt so den Anschluss an den erhaltenen Petrontext her.

Their topics are Red Sea trade and the state; Trajan's Canal: river navigation from the Nile to the Red Sea; mercantile networks and economic considerations of the pearl trade in the Roman Empire; Roman policy on the Red Sea in the second century CE; evidence for Nabataean middlemen in Puteoli; Indian gold crossing the Indian Ocean through the millennia; changing fortunes, submerged histories, and the slow capitalism of the sea; comparative perspectives on the pepper trade; and European merchants in Asian markets during the early modern period.

A whole section in De architectura is devoted to the powder of Puzzuolo (Puteoli), which Vitruvius describes as a kind of "sandy powder which does remarkable things": mixed with lime and broken stone it not only strengthens buildings, but even makes these ingredients solidify and harden under sea water, so that offshore dams can be built with it.

(14) Carney (note 4) 23-24 refers to the period following the praetorship in a way that implies prior connections with the publicani: 'Marius, now a prominent member of a group of wealthy businessmen with connections in Puteoli in Southern Italy, came to be of such importance amongst the publicani ...' There is no direct evidence to show that Marius ever possessed mines in Iberia, the Mariani montes could just as easily have been named after Sex.