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Prices and Wages in the Byzantine World

847

for high-ranking persons, however, were reckoned in thousands, even tens of thousands of gold pieces, in line with their personal wealth or their importance to the state. There appears to have been some inflation in prices from the eleventh century on, though antiquity is, admittedly, represented by only one figure.

Table 14

Prices for Slaves

Date

Place

Person

Price

Source85

Tenth Century

 

 

 

 

944

empire

Russian fugitive

20 nomismata

Antoniade`s-Bibicou

962

Aleppo

Arab adult male

36 nomismata

Kamal ad din86

962

Aleppo

Arab adult female

20 dinars

Kamal ad din

962

Aleppo

young Arab, male or

16 dinars

Kamal ad din

 

 

female

 

 

before 963

empire

lost slave

6 nomismata 4

Antoniade`s-Bibicou

 

 

 

miliaresia

 

962

eastern frontier

Greek adult male

30 dinars

Antoniade`s-Bibicou

962

eastern frontier

adolescent male or

15 dinars

Antoniade`s-Bibicou

 

 

female

 

 

before 1000

eastern frontier

Muslim prisoner

331⁄3 dinars

Muqqadasi87

Eleventh Century

 

 

 

 

11th century

Syria

young girl

2 dinars

Bianquis, Syrie, 585

 

 

 

(abundance)

 

before 1050

empire

slave

20 nomismata

Peira, Zepos, Jus,

 

 

 

 

4:83–84

before 1059

East

slavewoman

400 nomismata

Will of Boilas

1059

Ephesos

slave

24 nomismata

Grumel88

Twelfth Century

 

 

 

 

1134

southern Italy

affranchisement

13 nosmimata of

Trinchera, 513

 

 

 

Michael VII

 

before 1200

empire

any slave

1 pound of

Rhalles and Potles,

 

 

 

hyperpyra

Su´ntagma, 2:500

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

continued

85Unless stated otherwise, references to slave prices prior to the 13th century are derived from H. Antoniade`s-Bibicou, “De´mographie, salaires et prix au XIe sie`cle,” AnnalesESC 27 (1972): 227–29.

86Cited in Leonis Diaconi Caloe¨nsis Historiae libri X, ed. C. B. Hase (Bonn, 1828), 393. The prices are expressed in “denarii romani,” i.e., nomismata.

87La meilleure re´partition pour la connaissance des provinces, trans. A. Miquel (Damascus, 1983) 209.

88V. Grumel, Les regestes des actes du patriarcat de Constantinople, vol. 1.3 (Paris, 1989), no. 887.

848 MORRISSON AND CHEYNET

Table 14 (continued)

Date

Place

Person

Price

Source

Thirteenth Century

 

 

 

 

1281

Pera

slavegirl (age 10)

14 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 69

1281

Pera

white slavewoman

31 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 87

1281

Pera

white slave

23 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 88

1281

Pera

slavegirl (age 12)

25 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 100

1281

Pera

freed slave

17 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 114

1281

Pera

slave (age 12)

28 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 115

1281

Pera

Abkhazi slavewoman

28 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 120

1281

Pera

white slavewoman

29 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 126

1281

Pera

boy (age 6–7)

6 hyperpyra 12

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

carats

no. 132

1281

Pera

boy (age 6–7)

20 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 143

1281

Pera

slavegirl (age 5–6)

7 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 144

1281

Pera

boy (age 8–9)

16 hyperpyra

Bratianu, Notaires,

 

 

 

 

no. 148

1289/90

Kaffa

slave

25–40 hyperpyra

Balard, Outre-mer,

 

 

 

 

1: (average)

1297

Ragusa

slave

22 hyperpyra

Krekic´, no. 49

Fourteenth Century

 

 

 

 

1300

Crete

slavewoman

18 hyperpyra

Pizolo, no. 173

1300

Crete

slave

24 hyperpyra

Pizolo, no. 340

 

 

 

(affranchisement)

 

1300

Crete

slave

20 hyperpyra

Pizolo, no. 349

1300

Crete

2 affranchised slaves

80 and 50

Pizolo, nos. 448,

 

 

 

hyperpyra

449

1300

Crete

3 Turkish slaves

65 hyperpyra for

Pizolo, no. 539

 

 

 

all 3

 

1300–1302

Crete

a batch

18–22 hyperpyra

Brixano, nos.

 

 

 

 

264–72

continued

Prices and Wages in the Byzantine World

849

Table 14 (continued)

Date

Place

Person

Price

Source

1317

Crete

Greek slave

11 hyperpyra

Rubio´ i Lluch, 107

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

49 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

115

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slave

26 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

126

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

60 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

131

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slave

361⁄2 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

132

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

63 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

132

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

55 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

133

1350

Constantinople

slavewoman

63 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

135

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

50 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

136

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

45 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

136

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

36 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

137

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

40 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

137

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

42 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

139

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavewoman

32 florins

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

139

1350

Constantinople

2 Tatar slavewomen

99 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

140

1350

Constantinople

Tartar slave

27 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

 

 

143

1350

Constantinople

Tatar slavegirl (age 10)

48 gold hyperpyra

Balard, Outre-mer,

 

 

 

 

2: no. 10

1360

Kilia

Tartar and other slave

24–60 hyperpyra

Balard, Outre-mer,

 

 

girls (aged 12–20)

 

2: nos. 17, 50, 56

1360/61

Cyprus

slaves

25–30 hyperpyra

Boateriis (average)

1357/63

Cyprus

Turkish slave

90 besants

Richard89

continued

89 J. Richard, “Les comptes du collecteur apostolique en Chypre (1357–1363),” Epethrij`" tou' Ke´n- trou Episthmonikw'njErwnw'nj13/16 (1984–87): 1–47.

850 MORRISSON AND CHEYNET

Table 14 (continued)

Date

Place

Person

Price

Source

1357/63

Cyprus

Greek slave

123 besants 12

Richard

 

 

 

denarii

 

1362

Constantinople

slavewoman

70 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance, 94

1362

Constantinople

slavewoman

52 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance, 94

1362

Constantinople

slave

50 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance, 94

1381

Crete

slavewoman (average)

96 hyperpyra

Verlinden90

1381

Crete

slave (average)

64 hyperpyra

Verlinden

1382

Crete

slavewoman (average)

95 hyperpyra

Verlinden

1382

Crete

slave (average)

71 hyperpyra

Verlinden

1383

Crete

slavewoman (average)

95 hyperpyra

Verlinden

1383

Crete

slave (average)

90 hyperpyra

Verlinden

1390

Pera

emancipation of

50 hyperpyra

Italiens `a Byzance,

 

 

slavewoman

 

37

before 1400

Ragusa

slave

120–150

Krekic´,

 

 

 

hyperpyra91

“Contributo”

Fifteenth Century

 

 

 

 

1436/37

Constantinople

slavewoman

100 hyperpyra

Badoer, 90, 13

 

 

Abkhazi slavewoman

(91 hyperpyra)

Badoer, 90, 13

1436/37

Constantinople

slave

70–90 hyperpyra

Badoer, passim

 

 

Tatar slave

(82 hyperpyra)

Badoer, 91, 6–7

 

 

Russian slave

(88 hyperpyra 14

Badoer, 578, 3

 

 

 

carats)

 

 

 

Tatar slave

(100 hyperpyra)

Badoer, 272, 26

1443

Pera

Tatar adult male

98 hyperpyra

Roccatagliata,

 

 

 

 

1: no. 12

1443

Pera

Greek adult male

2,200 asperi

Roccatagliata,

 

 

 

 

1: no. 53

 

 

 

 

 

When one takes the devaluation of the hyperpyron into account, slave prices are seen to have remained remarkably stable from the Justinianic period until the beginning of the fourteenth century. This stability was all the more remarkable in that these prices were the outcome of a real market, partly international in nature. Prices subsequently rose, particularly after 1350, perhaps due to the effect of the plague on the population, despite the pirate warfare in which Turks and Latins were actively engaged.

90All these references are derived from C. Verlinden, L’esclavage dans L’Europe me´die´vale (Ghent, 1977), 2:840–68.

91B. Krekic´, “Contributo allo studio degli schiavi levantini e balcanici a Venezia (1388–1398),” in

Studi in memoria di Federigo Melis, vol. 2 (Naples, 1978).

 

Prices and Wages in the Byzantine World

851

Prices of Luxury Products

 

 

 

 

Table 15

 

 

 

Prices of Luxury Products and Movable Goods

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

Type of Object

Price

Source

 

Clothes

 

 

 

 

late 6th century

silk clothes

72 solidi

John of Ephesos, chap. 55,

 

 

 

PO 19:193

 

early 7th century

cover

36 solidi

Vie S. Jean l’Aum., chap. 19

940

purple belts and imitations

11⁄3, 1, and 2⁄3

De cer., 470 (App.)

 

 

 

nomismata

 

 

940

silk tunics (dwdeka` pwla,

12–6 nomismata

De cer., 1:473 and Book of the

 

deka´ lia, eJzalia, eJza´ hwla)

 

Eparch, chap. 8

 

1022

veil with silver clasp

2 gold pieces

Mastaura, 124

 

1022

one cover and one cloak

1 gold piece

Mastaura, 124

 

1022

two women’s dresses

1 gold piece

Mastaura, 124

 

1022

embroidered woman’s

2 gold pieces

Mastaura, 124

 

 

gown (?)

 

 

 

1057

coat presented to the abbey

100 pounds of

Guillou, 10992

 

 

of Farfa

silver

 

 

 

scaramangion embroidered

20 nomismata

Petrucci, Codice diplomatico,

 

with gold thread

 

no. 79

 

1199

gray surcoat

62⁄3 hyperpyra

Mu¨ller, Documenti, 77a

1199

fustano (one or several?) for

4 hyperpyra 20

Mu¨ller, Documenti, 77b

 

squires

carats

 

 

early 13th century

3 silk caftans

72 hyperpyra

Chomatianos, no. 19

 

early 13th century

a tzo´ca

50 hyperpyra

Chromatianos, no. 19

early 13th century

saffron-colored garments

10 hyperpyra

Chomatianos, no. 84

 

early 13th century

a coat and a saffron-colored

6 hyperpyra

Chomatianos, no. 84

 

 

garment

 

 

 

early 13th century

a coat and a small hat

41⁄6 hyperpyra

Chomatianos, no. 84

 

13th century

a woolen coat

several hyperpyra

Karpozilos

 

13th century

a coat from Trebizond with

12 nomismata

Karpozilos

 

 

fur trimming

 

 

 

1272

Sandals (kaligia)

2 aspra

Vazeloˆn, no. 86, p. 50

 

1272

caftan

12 aspra

Vazeloˆn, no. 86, p. 50

 

continued

92 Argyros, duke of Italy, offered the abbey of Farfa a precious coat, made entirely of silk shot with gold thread (holosericum auroque textum) worth more than 100 pounds of very fine silver: Il Chronicon Farfense di Gregorio di Catino, cited in Guillou, “Production and Profits,” 109.

852 MORRISSON AND CHEYNET

Table 15 (continued)

Date

Type of Object

Price

Source

1292

a wolfskin pelisse

4 hyperpyra 12

Embassy of Edward I

 

 

carats

 

1292

a rabbitskin pelisse

2 hyperpyra

Embassy of Edward I

1292

a red fur

6 hyperpyra

Embassy of Edward I

1292

a lambskin fur

1 hyperpyron 12

Embassy of Edward I

 

 

carats

 

1292

4 sheets

5 hyperpyra 15

Embassy of Edward I

 

 

carats

 

1292

a pair of common shoes

17 carats

Embassy of Edward I

14th century

some shoes

4 ducats

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 3,

 

 

 

§ 136

1292

a pair of shoes for a

1 hyperpyron 15

Embassy of Edward I

 

chaplain

carats

 

1292

shoes

8–22 carats

Embassy of Edward I

1292

boots for a cook

9 carats

Embassy of Edward I

1300

a chlamyda

14 hyperpyra

Pizolo, no. 258

14th century

two garments

12 ducats

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 3,

 

 

 

§ 136

14th century

garment (tsou'pa)

40 hyperpyra

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 8, § 2

14th century

linen garment (kaba´ dh")

7 hyperpyra

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 8, § 2

1365

a new tsou'paand a new

3 hyperpyra

Ferrari, “Vatican,” 265

 

fousta´ nh

 

 

1384

a silk fusta´ nion

6 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49, l. 17

1384

2 roucha

18 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49, l. 17

1394

ambassador’s garment

50 gold ducats

Thiriet, Re´gestes, 2:77

 

(Mistra)

 

 

1424

a dress (tsou'pa)

10 hyperpyra

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 35, § 4

1436

a hat (bereta negra) from

6 hyperpyra

Badoer, 280, 9; 329, 5

 

near Venice

 

 

1436

cloth for a coat (Badoer)

33 hyperpyra

Badoer, 13, 23

1436

a black coat (Bragadin)

15 hyperpyra

Badoer, 53, 5

1437

making a coat (Badoer)

4 hyperpyra

Badoer, 280, 23

1438

100 panze for its fur trim

8 hyperpyra

Badoer, 485, 25

1439

for having it lined

6 hyperpyra

Badoer, 716, 8–9

1437

cloth and sewing for 5 shirts

51⁄2 hyperpyra

Badoer, 346, 22–25

 

for slaves

(1 11⁄10

 

 

 

hyperpyra)

 

 

1 shirt each at

1 hyperpyron 6

Badoer, 346, 31

 

 

carats

 

continued

Prices and Wages in the Byzantine World

853

Table 15 (continued)

Date

Type of Object

Price

Source

1437

14 pichi of cloth for 3 shirts

2 hyperpyra (1

Badoer, 273, 31

 

for slaves

1 hyperpyron)

 

1437

3 pelize, 3 sciavine ( jackets),

13 hyperpyra (for

Badoer, 272, 32

 

3 pairs of shoes for slaves

one slave 41⁄3

 

 

 

hyperpyra)

 

1438

1 peliza, 1 sciavina ( jacket),

3 hyperpyra 15

Badoer, 362, 13

 

1 bereta, and 1 pair of shoes

carats

 

 

for slavegirl (age 12)

 

 

1439

1 sciavina, 1 gonela, and

2 hyperpyra 15

Badoer, 624, 7

 

1 pair of shoes for slave

carats

 

 

(age 13)

 

 

1453

3 coats (marten, fox)

230 hyperpyra of

Roccatagliata, 1: no. 35

 

 

Pera

 

Household Goods93

 

 

 

1022

small cauldron

1 gold piece

Mastaura, 124

1365

cauldron

1 hyperpyron

Ferrari, “Vatican,” 265

1022

cooking pot with feet

1 gold piece

Mastaura, 124

1384

2 cooking pots

4 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49, l. 30

1292

kitchen knife

6 carats

Embassy of Edward I

1384

3 wine carafes

2 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49, l. 30

1384

mortar and vase

2 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49, l. 31

1384

one new and one worn

5 and 9

Docheiariou, no. 49, l. 31

 

carpet

hyperpyra

 

1300–1302

featherbed

20 hyperpyra

Brixano, no. 449

1393

featherbed

25 hyperpyra

Santschi, Cre`te, no. 1425

14th century

bedcover

20 hyperpyra

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 8, § 2

15th century

2 bedcovers

28 and 26

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 35

 

 

hyperpyra

 

1365

2 covers (1 linen and silk,

2 hyperpyra

Ferrari, “Vatican,” 265

 

1 Egyptian)

 

 

1365

2 linen sheets

2 hyperpyra

Ferrari, “Vatican,” 265

1365

2 pillows

4 hyperpyra

Ferrari, “Vatican,” 265

15th century

2 pillows

5 hyperpyra

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 35

15th century

2 pillows

12 hyperpyra

MM 2:406

continued

93 For the late period, there are some documents from Frankish Cyprus containing very precise information about the furnishings and equipment in one house: J. Richard, “Guy d’Ibelin, O.P., ´eveˆque de Limassol,” BCH 74 (1950): 108–33; idem, “Les comptes” (as above, note 89).

854 MORRISSON AND CHEYNET

Table 15 (continued)

Date

Type of Object

Price

Source

1384

3 cotton pillows

8–18 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49

14th century

some bolsters (mazela´ ria)

11 ducats

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 3494

1436

Badoer’s furniture:

4 hyperpyra 11

Badoer, 45, 12

 

1 cypresswood table,

carats

 

 

2 stools, 1 cathedra

 

 

1438

cypresswood coffin

13 hyperpyra

Badoer, 376, 4

1436

3 carpete bianche

3 hyperpyra

Badoer, 47, 20

 

(tablecloths ?)

 

 

Jewels and Silver Goods

 

 

9th century

2 pairs of earrings

10 liters of gold

DAI, 244

1365

2 pairs of earrings and

12 hyperpyra

Ferrari, “Vatican,” 265

 

2 rings

 

 

1384

earrings (pearls and

48 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49, l. 27

 

precious stones)

 

 

1384

pendants (pearls and

36 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49, ll. 26–7

 

precious stones)

 

 

15th century

4 pairs of earrings, each

?

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 6, § 27

 

weighing 4 exagia

 

 

9th century

silver table decorated with

10 liters of gold

DAI, 244

 

gilt animals

 

 

1022

silver bracelet

2 gold pieces

Mastaura, 124

1022

2 bracelets (weight 18 sicla)

2 gold pieces

Mastaura, 124

1098

gold bracelet weighing

?

Iviron, 2: no. 47

 

2 liters and 12 exagia

 

 

1365

silver bracelets (19 exagia)

4 hyperpyra

Ferrari, “Vatican,” 265

15th century

pendants

150 hyperpyra

MM 2:559

1098

a medallion (enkolpion) of 24

?

Iviron, 2: no. 47

 

exagia

 

 

late 11th century

silver cup of 60 exagia

?

Iviron, 2: Synodikon, 7, no.

 

 

 

115

1096

silver cup

130 staters

Alexiade, 2: 220

1300

silver cup with 37 nebrites

13 hyperpyra

Pizolo, no. 648

1314

silver-gilt belt

8 hyperpyra

Chilandar, no. 27

1364

silver belt

18 hyperpyra

Santschi, Cre`te, no. 14

1366

belt

300 hyperpyra

Vatopedi, ed. Mosˇin, no. 1

continued

94 Also to be found are silk coverlets for a price of 10–16 ducats, 4 pairs of sheets worth 16 ducats, and mattresses (strw´ mata) at 10 ducats (gold or silver ?).

 

Prices and Wages in the Byzantine World

855

 

Table 15

 

 

 

(continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

Type of Object

Price

Source

 

1370

2 silver belts (together

61 hyperpyra

Santschi, Cre`te, no. 188

 

491⁄2 uncie)

 

 

 

14th–15th

belt

4 nomismata

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 75

centuries

 

 

 

 

15th century

“Frankish” belt

50 hyperpyra

MM 2:419

 

15th century

belt weighing 8 uncie

?

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 6, § 27

 

(213 g)

 

 

 

1368

ring with diamond

40 hyperpyra

Santschi, Cre`te, no. 91

14th century

one balas ruby

1,522 hyperpyra

Thiriet, Re´gestes, 1: no.

 

 

 

141095

 

15th century

a collar

90 hyperpyra

MM 2:563

 

1314

2 gold rings of 4 exagia

?

Chilandar, no. 27

 

1384

6 rings

10 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49

 

15th century

2 gold rings weighing 4

?

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 6, § 27

 

exagia

 

 

 

14th–15th

one ring

2 nomismata

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 75

centuries

 

19 kokkia

 

 

1436

5 silver spoons weighing 4

10 hyperpyra 12

Badoer, 13, 20

 

 

ounces 6 solidi at 28

carats

 

 

 

hyperpyra per pound

 

 

 

1436

8 silver spoons weighing 6

17 hyperpyra 2

Badoer, 44, 2

 

 

ounces 5 solidi at 30

carats

 

 

 

hyperpyra per pound

 

 

 

1437

2 small cups and 2 spoons

25 hyperpyra

Badoer, 300, 19–21

 

Icons and Liturgical Objects

 

 

 

514–523

gold paten weighing 5

360 nomismata

LP, 1:27197

 

 

pounds96

 

 

 

continued

95T. Bertele`, “I gioielli della corona bizantina dato in pegno alla Repubblica Veneta nel secolo XIV e Mastino II della Scala,” in Studi in onore di Amintore Fanfani, 6 vols. (Milan, 1962), 2:89–177. The crown jewels were pawned to Venice for the sum of 33,000 ducats in 1343. Constantine XI also pawned a ruby for 9,000 hyperpyra (ibid., 138).

96Justin I presented Pope Hormisdas with a paten decorated with hyacinths, and many other precious objects.

97As we know, the Liber Pontificalis provides an impressive list of gifts presented by Constantine and his successors and various popes to the churches of Rome, thereby supplying their liturgical equipment, and also itemizes the nature and weight of the metal involved. See the commentary by M. Mundell Mango, “The Monetary Value of Silver Revetments and Objects Belonging to Churches,

A.D. 300–700,” in Ecclesiastical Silver Plate in Sixth-Century Byzantium, ed. S. A. Boyd and M. M. Mango

(Washington, D.C., 1992), 123–36.

856 MORRISSON AND CHEYNET

Table 15 (continued)

Date

Type of Object

Price

Source

523–526

gold paten weighing 20

1,440 nomismata

LP, 1:272

 

pounds

 

 

523–526

gold chalice weighing 5

360 nomismata

LP, 1:272

 

pounds

 

 

625–638

revetments and chandeliers

1,224 pounds of

LP, 1:323

 

for St. Peter’s

silver

 

687–701

cross (with emeralds)

20 pounds

LP, 1:37598

687–701

gold chalice of 20 pounds

1,440 nomismata

LP, 1:375

1143

lamp of 20 gold pounds

1,440 hyperpyra

Kinnamos, 25

 

(Holy Sepulcher)

 

 

late 13th century

2 candlesticks

1,000 hyperpyra99

Delehaye, Typika, 94–95

late 13th century

chandelier

5 pounds of silver

Delehaye, Typika, 95

11th century

gilt icon

30 nomismata

Petrucci, Codice diplomatico,

 

 

 

no. 76

early 13th century

icon

7 nomismata

Chomatianos, no. 84

1384

7 icons

2–7 hyperpyra

Docheiariou, no. 49

14th century

one icon at 24 uncie of

24 hyperpyra

Lavra, 3: no. 147, l. 3

 

ducats

 

 

14th–15th

2 icons and 4 books

78 hyperpyra

Schreiner, Finanz, no. 36

centuries

 

 

 

15th century

icon

10 hyperpyra

MM 2:504

 

 

 

 

Garments, Jewels, and Icons

We have assembled here everything of value from a couple’s possessions. Our knowledge is very limited, given that there are no inventories containing estimates of goods, apart from a few documents that are more detailed: one marriage contract involving Jews of Mastaura on the Meander dated 1022; the inventory of a minor’s possessions at the beginning of the thirteenth century; a dowry preserved in a Vatican manuscript; the inventory of the reconstituted dowry of a widow named Maria Deblitzene (1384), and a marriage contract from the fifteenth century. Except for the third document, which concerns the Thracian aristocracy, these sources relate to ordinary citizens.

In 1022, each item of the wife’s property, her luxury vessels, dresses, veil, coverlet, rings, and earrings, was valued at between half and two gold pieces. In 1384, the possessions that reverted to Maria Deblitzene were not fundamentally different, with the

98The gift to St. Peter’s in Rome also included a silver dais weighing 120 pounds and six silver lamps weighing 170 pounds.

99Two others for 500 hyperpyra.