1st century AD |
Price
|
1 modius wheat |
see above and right
|
1 loaf bread |
1 dupondius
(=2 As ; in Rome)
|
1 sextarius wine
(~0.5 liter) |
1 - 5 as
|
1 sextarius fine wine |
up to 30 as
|
a bath at a public bath |
1/4 as
|
1 tunika (clothing) |
15 sestertii
|
1 donkey |
500 sestertii
|
1 general slave |
2000 sestertii = 500 denarii (up to 1500)
|
1 pretty female slave |
2000 - 6000 denarii
|
1 morgan land |
1000 sestertii = 250 denarii
|
|
Average price in As for
1 Modius wheat:
(values of Rome and Italy
derived from Egypt)
|
Rome
|
Italy
|
Egypt
|
18BC-14AD |
16
|
8
|
4
|
14 - 98 |
32
|
16
|
8
|
98 - 192 |
40
|
20
|
10
|
193 - 260 |
68
|
34
|
17
|
|