Figuring out the facts: calculating mosaic labour times in 4th-c. A.D. Britain
Author(s): |
Will Wootton
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English |
Published in: | Journal of Roman Archeology, 2015, v. 28 |
Page(s): | 261-282 |
DOI: | 10.1017/s1047759415002482 |
Abstract: |
In the study of the British countryside in the 4th c. A.D. villas have formed a central component. Their decoration features highly in the scholarship, the tessellated floors cited as evidence for the spending patterns and status claims of a wealthy élite. This élite's desire to spend its surplus funds on lavish interiors created a “boom” in mosaic production, which some scholars have associated with a “flight of capital” from the Continent in the late 3rd c. or others simply with the increasing prosperity of landowners during the 4th c. |
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