1 Cor 9,5: The Women of the Apostles 367 there are hundreds of small structures called tabernae by archaeologists (possibly used for shops, workshops, production of food, storerooms or taverns), which have separate entrances from the street (72). They include housing (with its own entrance) on a mezzanine or upper level. Ancient Greek workshops such as those in Athens or Delos might have employed “extended family, hired labor or slaves”(73). Literary evidence from classical Greece indicates the presence of slaves in such workshops attached to houses (74). Presumably the apostles or their wives (if they were married) would have been able to easily do mission work in those contexts. Celsus confirms that later Christians indeed did head to the shops and workplaces for mission. With regard to the gynaeconitis, one can only appeal to historical probability, but Clement’s tradition and the evidence from Vitruvius, Nepos, and other texts mentioned above are good support for the thesis that the women of 9,5 would have had certain mission opportunities denied the apostles themselves. This could include the areas in some homes construed as “off limits” to males. The existence of such areas is not dependent on the idealized house plan of Vitruvius. * ** The force of the various steps in the argument outlined above strengthens the claim that the “sister women” contributed to the early Christian mission. Since Cephas/Peter was married and given the usage of “lead around”, many of the women were probably wives, but not necessarily all. Some of them might have chosen primarily to give material or domestic support to the apostles. All of the women, however, became well trained in apostolic teaching and, if they so Olynthos (54: weaving) and Sardis (VI C.E.). B. TSAKIRGIS, “Living and Working Around the Athenian Agora: A Preliminary Case Study of Three Houses”, Ancient Greek Houses, 67-82 discusses three houses next to the Athenian Agora where a smith, sculptor, and cobbler lived and worked (Classical era). (72) M. TRÜMPER, “Modest Housing in Late Hellenistic Delos”, Ancient Greek Houses, 119-139, esp. 120-122. (73) CAHILL, “Household Industry,” 59-60. (74) TSAKIRGIS, “Living and Working”, 69 with reference to Demosthenes 27.19, 26 (In Aphob. I) and Lysias 12.19 (In Eratosth.; 120 slaves who made shields).