Guild Document "fabri tignuarii Romae AE 1941, 00069"

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Document name fabri tignuarii Romae AE 1941, 00069
Name variant (this document) colleg(ii) fabr(um) tignar(iorum)
Standard name of the group fabri tignuarii Romae
English standard name carpenters
Standard reference AE 1941, 00069
References to other standard editions AE 1941, 00069 = AE 2002, +00181
Source type inscription
Type of inscription religious
Type of monument basis, statua
Main location Roma
Main province Roma
Main admininistrative district Roma
Post quem 165 AD
Exact date
Ante quem 180 AD
Notes on dating The date is based on the plural "Augg(ustorum)" and the (first ever) dedication to "Asclepius conservator Augustorum" being particularly appropriate for the period of the Antonine Plague, wich reached Rome in 165/166 CE and raged intermittingly until the early 190s. The Augusti could be Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (161-169 CE) or Commodus (176-180 CE), probably not Septimius Severus and Caracalla 198-209 CE) or Caracalla and Geta (211-212 CE) since the dedicator is not recorded in the album CIL 06, 33858. Royden (1988: 172) suggests also 162 CE, when Verus fell sick at Canusium, but it seems unlikely that this would have been enough for the dedicant to set up two dedications (to Asclepius and to Salus) for both emperors and give a distribution to the quinquennales and honorati.
Corporate designation collegium
Internal institutions honorati ; quinquennales
Protectors
Collective action
Collective assets statue of Asclepius
Collective entitlements
Public recognition and privileges
Private duties and liabilities
Receive statue of Asclepius ; handout
Donate
Notes
An altar dedicated to Asclepius Augustorum, similar to AE 2004, 00285b (to Salus) probably set up in the schola of the guild by an honoratus of the guild. He also provided a handout the quinquennales, honorati, decuriones and scribes. Curiously, a space was left on the stone for the amounts of the distributions, but these were never filled in.
Standard text of source
Asclepium conservatorem Augg(ustorum) / L(ucius) Valerius L(uci) f(ilius) Fab(ia) Iunianus honorat(us) / colleg(ii) fabr(um) tignar(iorum) collegio d(onum) d(edit) / idem ob dedicationem eius divisit / q(uin)q(uennalibus) et honoratis singulis |(denarium) vacat / decurion(ibus) et scribis |(denarium) vacat
Translation
Asclepius, keeper of the Augusti.
Lucius Valerius Iunianus, son of Lucius, of the Fabia tribe, honoratus of the builders' guild has given (this) as a gift. Also, at its dedication he distributed to each of the quinquennales and former magistrates … denarii, to the scribes … denarii
Notes on the source
The dedicant set up an almost identical inscription to Salus (AE 2004, 00285b).