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Slide 1 Amber in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History Dalia Andziulytė University of Vilnius What was the price (pretium) of amber? I. Monetary value Pliny speaks about amber next to the pearls, crystal, spar (murrinum), emeralds, and says, that a small human made of amber could be more pretious than a slave, alive and strong: C. Plinius Secundus. Naturalis Historia. XXXVII.30 Proximum locum in delic
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