Resumen de Congressus in venalicio: spazi urbani e mercato degli schiavi a Capua e a Roma
The question of the logistics of the ‘venalicium’, that is the type of market whose transactions moved large sums of money, involves not only a seller and a buyer but also an audience, a magistrate, bankers, auctioneers and intermediaries, and which by court order required the support of technical equipment fit for the transport and display of merchandise made up of human beings submitted to slavery. In the two cities taken as examples, Rome, the capital of the Roman world very aware of its own image, and Capua, the main centre of distribution for every type of product, we tried to identify, relying mainly on inscriptions, the quarters, squares, buildings for certain uses; the environment and circulation of traffic implied; the role played by the individual involved and the diversity of the ethnic groups often recognizable through their cultural practices.
