Roman money changers and bankers

[Caballo]

I'm looking for images / sculptures of Roman money changers or bankers (or articles on them)- can anyone help?

Cheers

Paul

[S. Marcer]

after a quick look...

from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romanreliefbank.jpg

from Roma, via Casilina (now in the Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano), the funeral relief of A. Fonteius Aphrodisius (banker):

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from the Museo Archeologico of Aquileia:

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I hope it can be useful...
Best

S.M.

[S. Marcer]

and about the bibliography I remember in italian:

- S.Balbi de Caro (1989) La banca a Roma: operatori e operazioni bancarie, ed. Quasar.
- A. Petrucci (1991) Mensam exercere. Studi sull'impresa finanziaria romana (II secolo a. C. metà del III secolo d. C.), ed. Jovene.

and in french, the big monograph:

- J. Andreau (1987) La vie financière dans le monde romain : les métiers de manieurs d'argent (IVe siècle av. J.-C.-IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.), Roma : Ecole française de Rome.

Best.

S.M.

[Caballo]

Thank you and grazie!

[Caballo]

And a new living history display for 2013. A first century argentarius , with scales to check the weight of silver or gold in coinage, an abacus to calculate, and a lararium with Fortuna, Minerva, Apollo, and Mercury.

The name used , Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, was a banker in Pompeii, and left a load of tablets- mainly his work at auctions where he paid for goods won as a loan for the successful bidders. He is also the star of the first book of the Cambridge Latin course in UK, so known to a LOT of school kids ("Ubi est Caecilius? Caecilius est in horto")






A picture of Caecilius himself.

[Flavivs Aetivs]

And a new living history display for 2013. A first century argentarius , with scales to check the weight of silver or gold in coinage, an abacus to calculate, and a lararium with Fortuna, Minerva, Apollo, and Mercury.

The name used , Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, was a banker in Pompeii, and left a load of tablets- mainly his work at auctions where he paid for goods won as a loan for the successful bidders. He is also the star of the first book of the Cambridge Latin course in UK, so known to a LOT of school kids ("Ubi est Caecilius? Caecilius est in horto")






A picture of Caecilius himself.

Ha! I'm familiar with that latin course, we use it in SC Virtual School.

[M. Demetrius]

A very excellent display. Beautiful calligraphy, too. For fun, I put the Latin through Google translate and got: "Where is View? The revision in the garden."

Clearly, that would be correctly trans-Latinize-ulated terminology for the good money changing banker, wouldn't it? Obfuscate instead of communicate, "fine print" forerunner.

Great display. Did you build the scales, or find some functional ones to use?

[Flavivs Aetivs]

It's where is Caecilius? Caecilius is in the Garden...

That reminds me of the "See Spot Run" book.

It is a beautiful recreation, I look forward to seeing it in action.

[Caballo]

Thanks all - I bought the scales on ebay for £4.99- carved off the horrible purple velvet and re worked it in leather, putting red wax seals with imprints from rings that I own to hide the 40 grams etc.

And I really hope some kid comes up and asks "Ubi est Caecilius?" To which the answer has to be "Caecilius est in horto. Caecilius est SEMPER in horto"!