126 TRADERS AND CRAFTSMEN v
the myrrh-market certainly wasted their time at the spot where
the perfumes were both produced and sold x It was the same
at the barber's and saddler's 2 The circumstances are not very
different from those of all small independent craftsmen
throughout the ages, who sell the goods they themselves pro-
duce m their workshops.3 Such a type is the bronze-founder
who has plenty of identical or similar statues in his workshop 4
From the smith's, who is elsewhere depicted as toiling away m
smoke and heat, one might buy a mascot, probably a clay
figure, which he had hung over his furnace.5 The fuller sold
warm coats 6 The soldier's widow who plaited wreaths for
religious worship and drmkmg-parties alike had to sell them
herself m the market.7 In. the monody m which Aischylos
derides the realism of Euripides, even a woman rich enough
to own several slave-girls goes herself to the market to sell
what she has spun.8 Thus even what the housewife had formerly
produced for the use of her own household only, was drawn
into the process of general trade.9
The breadshop was at the same time the bakery where the
baking-pans stood, where the making or turning of the loaves
was done, and where, perhaps, the slaves, kneading the
dough, wore round their necks the paustkape^ a big collar to
prevent them from putting anything m their mouths.10 Lazy
and sensual Dionysos regarded the breadshop as one of the
necessary incidents of a journey, like the road, the spring, the
inn and the brothel.11 Most likely it was m a bakery that
people got the toasted bread and pancakes which 'hiss when
honey is dripped on them.'12 Frequently in comedy women
are mentioned who went round selling bread But this does
not disprove that there were also bakers' shops The woman
1 Lysias, frg 38, 2, 5 — K I375ff, Pherekr 2, 64, Eupolis 209
z Lysias XXIV, 20 3 See Plate X^. 4 Lysias, frg 32
5 frg 592 — adesp 443 It is, however, unlikely that a smith was normally
prepared to sell his Hephaistos or whatever deity he had hung up, this is no
ordinary case of buying and selling, but as we do not know the context, we
cannot say what it really meant
6 E 415ff 7 Th 446fF * F r 346iF
s Wade-Gery reminds me of// XII, 433!? But the yuvn x€pvnTi$ oc^Oris
who works for the 'scanty pittance' of her children certainly belongs to different
social conditions.
frg 1,125,155 -frg 313, 748,Phryn 27 See Plate XI^ -frg 301-2
» Magnes i, Kratmos 125, cf adesp 852