Aizanoi

Is complaining about ever-rising prices unique to our own age? Look at the walls of Aizanoi’s round market building and you will see that the answer is no. In 301, the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued an edict setting maximum prices for hundreds of goods and services across the empire; and the people of Aizanoi carved the list into the walls of their market for everyone to see… The price of wheat, of wine, of a pair of shoes was written in stone, and written never to be erased.