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Apprenticeship to a Weaver August/September 53 A.D.

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Description

Although Pausiris was a master of the weaver's trade so that he could take apprentices, he apprenticed his own sons to other weavers. This procedure might be occasioned by a law prohibiting a father to take his own son as apprentice. This phenomenon might just as well point to a vast specialization in the trade or might be explained on psychological grounds.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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