Teacher Anicetus
Collar plate for escaped slaves.
The owner’s contact information was written on it.
These kind of collar plates were excavated from various late Roman era sites, but there are no pictures of these collars from during Claudius’ reign, when he greatly loosened the conditions of freedmen.
So it seems in Nero-chan’s time that they didn’t wear them?
As Claudius and Nero-chan both successively gave more rights to slaves, and the rich were the ones writing the history books, it’s understandable…
Being sold.
If they could find good work and be freed, they could start their own business, and apparently there were freedmen that were more successful than Roman citizens.
Besides Claudius and Nero-chan, many emperors beside Claudius and Nero-chan had slaves or freedmen for their best friends, lovers, or even advisors.
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