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| Document name | fabri Urbis Salviae AE 1993, 00595 |
| Name variant (this document) | [---] fabr(um) [---] |
| Standard name of the group | fabri Urbis Salviae |
| English standard name | craftsmen |
| Standard reference | AE 1993, 00595 |
| References to other standard editions | Piceno-Ur, 00007 = AE 1993, 00595 |
| Source type | inscription |
| Type of inscription | funerary |
| Type of monument | panel |
| Main location | Urbs Salvia |
| Main province | Italia: Regio 05, Picenum |
| Main admininistrative district | Picenum (Regio V) |
| Post quem | 1 AD |
| Exact date | |
| Ante quem | 200 AD |
| Notes on dating | Dated by Marengo 1990 based on paleography and the formula BM. |
| Corporate designation | |
| Internal institutions | quaestores? |
| Protectors | patroni? |
| Collective action | |
| Collective assets | |
| Collective entitlements | |
| Public recognition and privileges | |
| Private duties and liabilities | |
| Receive | |
| Donate | |
| Notes |
The early date may be doubtfull, since it is based on paleographical grounds.
The inscription is very fragmentary. The Anonymus here documented had been quattuorvir and quaestor and had some connection to the fabri. Since he does not appear to have transcended the local level, the fabri in question are most likely also local and we are not dealing with an equestian praefectus fabrum.
The municipal institutions of Urbs Salviae are badly documented. We hear of:
a decurio (CIL 9, 5542; 5560)
a quaestor (AE 1993, 595 (this person))
an aedilis (CIL 9, 5539)
quattuorviri (CIL 9, 5538 ; 5540; 5543?; AE 1993, 595 (this person))
a quinquennalis (CIL 9, 5533; 6365)
a praetor quinquennalis (AE 1969/70, 00183a = EAOR-03, 78)
Curiously, while one of the decuriones is an eques romanus (CIL 9, 5542), and both the (praetores) quinquennales are high ranking imperial senators, one of the quattuorviri is explicitly a libertus (L. Annius L.l. Capriolus (CIL 9, 5538) and none are certainly ingenui.
The 'quattuorvirate' at Urbs Salvia is on the whole exceptional in Picenum (cf. Delplace 1983: 766-767). Other towns had duumviri. Delplace dismisses this as a remnant of Urbs Salvia's former history as a 'praefecture'. Marengo (1990), however, argues that the quattuorviri were not civil magistrates but representatives of private associations or a semi-religious association such as the octoviri documented in Firmum and Falerio or the tresviri recorded in Amiternum, and more widely the seviri (augustales). A lost inscription from Trea (CIL 9, 5655) may even have documented a 'quattuorvir Augustalis'.
This leaves two possible interpretations:
1° quattuorvir and quaestor are civic offices and the Anonymus was patron of praefectus of the local (collegium) fabrum
2° quattuorvir (augustalis) was a non-elite dignity confered on wealthy and honourable non-elites (as the augustalitas) and the Anonymus was quaestor collegii fabrum, a title documented for the collegium fabrum in Patavium (CIL 5, 2850; AE 1976, 235) and not uncommon also in other collegia.
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| Standard text of source |
------ / [--- ] IIIIvịṛ [---] / [---] quaes[t- ---] / [---] fabr(um) [---] / [--- coniu]gi b(ene) m(erenti) [---] / [--- et] sibì [---]
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| Translation | … quattuorvir … quaestor? … patron? of the craftsmen … to her(?) well deserving husband … and her/himself … |
| Notes on the source |