On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor

Baird, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1353/hel.2015.0001

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“…18 Guzzo, Scarano Ussani 2001Costabile 2003, 473. 19 Guzzo, Scarano Ussani 2001Costabile 2005;Baird 2015;Berg 2018. 20 D'Ambrosio 2001Mastroroberto 2003b;Costabile 2003.…”

Section: Evidence For the Use Of Jewellery In Pompeian Barsunclassified

The harbour of Venus? Sub-elite identities, multisensorial adornment, and Pompeian bars

Berg¹

2023

Acta

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From the bars and inns (thermopolia, cauponae, and hospitia) of Roman Pompeii, destroyed in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, a variety of different types of jewellery has been found. The bars have been excavated both inside the perimeter of the ancient city and in its harbour suburb. In particular, the complete gold parure found in a river-side caupona at Moregine (building B), featuring body-chains, bracelets, and anklets, gives rise to the hypothesis that this kind of outfit of abundant gold jewellery, plausibly worn on the nude body, may have been less typically owned by elite matrons and more distinctive of sub-elite women working in bars, perhaps even connect-ed with sex work. This hypothesis is tested by questioning the multiple multi-sensorial ways in which jewellery could attract attention to the wearer’s body and signal non-elite status. Among the more ephemeral and rarely considered features are the visibility of the jewellery, based on its dimensions, material, placement on intimate areas of the body, its mobility, and perhaps also the tinkling sounds produced by its movement. As a conclusion, there seems to be a connection between the abundant use of jewellery of high visual impact, acoustic qualities referring to dance and the hospitality business in the inns of Pompeii. On cover:Late Roman wall, the portion immediately south of the West Gate (Porta Oea) with re-used blocks from first-century mausolea (Drawing by Francesca Bigi) and Tombstone of Regina from South Shields (Arbeia) (Tyne and WearArchives and Museums/ Bridgeman Images). E-ISSN (online version) 2611-3686 ISSN (print version) 0065-0900

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“…18 Guzzo, Scarano Ussani 2001Costabile 2003, 473. 19 Guzzo, Scarano Ussani 2001Costabile 2005;Baird 2015;Berg 2018. 20 D'Ambrosio 2001Mastroroberto 2003b;Costabile 2003.…”

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The harbour of Venus? Sub-elite identities, multisensorial adornment, and Pompeian bars

Berg¹

2023

Acta

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“…Baird also notes that despite analysis showing that the remains are of a female in her 30s, she is often called a 'girl'. A similar case is the woman found in the gladiator barracks at Pompeii, discussed by Lazer 2009, 15-18. 127 Baird 2015;Guzzo 2003. 128 Sperduti 1997 Towns which served the harbour (Portus) of Rome.…”

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“…For example, Edmondson 2011, 352–3. Baird 2015 has heavily critiqued the emphasis on this interpretation, showing that the context in which the person was recovered (carrying a bag of jewellery and wearing other items, and found in association with another woman and three children) is often passed-over in favour of her being a prostitute or an enslaved. Baird also notes that despite analysis showing that the remains are of a female in her 30s, she is often called a ‘girl’.…”

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Blind to Chains? The Potential of Bioarchaeology for Identifying the Enslaved of Roman Britain

Redfern

2018

Britannia

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This research explores the contribution bioarchaeology can make to the study of slavery in Roman Britain, responding to the calls by Webster and colleagues for the greater use of osteological and scientific techniques in this endeavour. It reviews the evidence for the bodies of the enslaved in the primary sources and bioarchaeological evidence from the New World and the Roman Empire. The paper aims to establish patterns of physiological stress and disease, which could be used to reconstruct osteobiographies of these individuals, and applies these findings to bioarchaeological evidence from Britain. It concludes that at the present time, it may not be possible for us to successfully separate out the enslaved from the poor or bonded labourers, because their life experiences were very similar. Nevertheless, these people are overlooked in the archaeological record, so unless we attempt to search for them in the extant evidence, the life experiences of the majority of the Romano-British population who were vital to its economy will remain lost to us.

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“…J. A Baird (2015),. "On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor," Helios 42, Lubbock, p.163.…”

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تبادل الأدوار الأسریة وتأثیراتها الإجتماعیة والكومیدیة فی مسرحیة "الحمیر" Asinaria لبلاوتوس

حسن¹

2022

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The Effect of Exchanging of Family Roles and it's Social Comic Effects in Plautus' "Asinaria"Plautus' Asinaria is full of variations more than any other play, as well as sudden transformations of plot, mixing in the same character traits, and irrationally motivated actions in events. Thus, this play can be said that it is a farce that turns into an incoherent comedy, whether because of neglect or reformulation by Plautus, and this is not befitting Plautus' status and the theatrical traditions in which he worked.Plautus has excelled through his play in drawing characters who play the roles of each other, showing the wife and mother controlling her husband and her son, in a way that is not appropriate for women. It is different from the obedient and submissive woman, and this was laughable, for depicting the comic role of a woman, playing the role of a man is a parody characterised by exaggeration and distortion of usual behaviours and normal roles. This causes sarcasm and ridicule of the role played by women, contrary to the stereotype that they should be. As for the husband and father, in exchange for the enjoyment of his wife's financial resources, he admits that he has relinquished his powers as a man in his family to her. As a result, he has relinquished his position, losing his dignity, becoming as nothing in the family, and has had no control on his wife's life or even the evaluation

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On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor

Cited by 25 publications

References 48 publications

The harbour of Venus? Sub-elite identities, multisensorial adornment, and Pompeian bars

The harbour of Venus? Sub-elite identities, multisensorial adornment, and Pompeian bars

Blind to Chains? The Potential of Bioarchaeology for Identifying the Enslaved of Roman Britain

تبادل الأدوار الأسریة وتأثیراتها الإجتماعیة والكومیدیة فی مسرحیة "الحمیر" Asinaria لبلاوتوس

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