The edict of Diocletian, Aria and cashmere

• Autores: Jon Wilde
• Localización: Saitabi: revista de la Facultat de Geografia i Història, ISSN 0210-9980, Nº. 64-65, 2014, págs. 11-23
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The article examines the types of animal fibre listed in Chapter XXV ‘On Wool’ in Diocletian’s Edict on Maximum Prices (AD 301). Wool from the leading sheep-rearing regions, the fibres from the mussel pinna nobilis, wool from rabbit or hare and – more controversially – ‘cashmere’ from ‘Aria’ all figure in Chapter XXV and are considered here from an archaeological perspective.