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Because of the detailed information on Roman brick stamps, especially of H. Dressel's collection in C. I. L., XV, we can easily form the clear conception of large scale production for the brick indust...ry. From a vast amount of brick, tile and other coarse pottery stamps, which appear the names of the kilnowners and of officinatores or conductores, it is clear that the landowners, especially near the city of Rome, produced these, opus doliare, in a large way employing many workmen. However, their individual production units were very small. Each of them possessed usually several small kilns of the same size, not a big one. These kilns, figlinae, were also composed of several small units, ojficinae, which were entrusted to the slave or freedman officinatores. Occasionally, figlinae were let out to the freedman contractors, conductores or negotiatores. These facts will lead us to the conclusion that the Roman brick industry, however based on the slave labour, did not know a factory system.show more
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