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Julien Demaille, « Esclaves et affranchis sur le territoire de la colonie romaine de Dion (Piérie, Macédoine) », Actes du Groupe de Recherches sur l’Esclavage depuis l’Antiquité, ID : 10670/1.h36gvf
There must have been many slaves and freedmen on the territory of the Roman colonia of Dion (Pieria, Greek Macedonia) as the inscriptions discovered reveal more than forty of them. However it is difficult to recognize their names as most of the time their status was not written. Their level of wealth, generally low, is also a reason of their poor representation in the corpus of the inscriptions of the colonia. In comparison with the number of ingenui, there are more slaves in the territory than in the city of Dion whereas the distribution of freedmen does not look different.