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from Part III - Slavery, Social History, and the Papyrological and Epigraphical Sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2022
While slavery was entrenched in the high Roman Empire, it continued well into late antiquity. The aim of this article is to evaluate the overall state of the evidence and to discuss the epigraphic and material culture of late Roman slavery, focusing on inscriptional sources for slaves in the later Roman Empire. I contend that the comprehensive overview of this type of evidence enables one to reintegrate the textual, visual, and physical aspects of artefacts of the period and to move the discussion about slavery and material culture forwards, by employing the intersectional approach. To be sure, late Roman slaves were not ‘class for itself’, while ‘class in itself’ they certainly were. They left a visible footprint in archaeological sites, and the epigraphic record that survives from the later Empire holds anthropological information about Roman slave culture: social interactions and a hierarchy of statuses, values, and beliefs.
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