of property was owned by the elite. Extremely few craftworkers would have owned their workshops. The cabinetmaker’s renting of his house linked him to the owner of I.10.4 in a relationship of economic dependency. The relationship probably had something of a patron-client nature to it, albeit maybe in informal terms. As Bruce Malina writes, across the first-century Mediterranean world, the relationship between landlord and tenant often took on the character of favor-giving dependency via events such
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