Ancient price lists reveal commercial life in the city of Stratonikeia

Discover a 2,000-year-old stone wall marking the prices of more than 200 ancient items, providing new insights into Roman trade.

The ancient city of Statonikeia in Muğla, Türkiye, is known as the city of gladiators. Photo: @Bilal Söğüt.

Not only known as the City of Gladiators, the 3,500-year-old ancient city of Stratonikeia has witnessed the development of the Ancient, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Beylik, Ottoman periods,...Photo: @Bilal Söğüt.

Now, experts from the Archaeological Excavation Department of the Ancient City of Stratonikeia have unexpectedly found a strange ancient relic. Photo: @Bilal Söğüt.

It is a stone wall estimated to be about 2,000 years old, with ancient texts and strange characters engraved on it. Photo: @Bilal Söğüt.

Decoding these characters, the results showed that this stone wall is actually a price list, displaying the names and prices of more than 200 different ancient business products. Photo: @Bilal Söğüt.

“All the products and services sold here during the Roman period had a price,” says Professor Dr. Bilal Söğüt. Photo: @Bilal Söğüt.

“Here you can find all the products that people in ancient times ate and sold. Even olives came in four or five varieties. A high-quality olive cost 45 denarii (Roman currency) at that time,” Professor Dr. Bilal Söğüt added. Photo: @Bilal Söğüt.

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