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| Document name | dendrophori Ostiae AE 1987, 00198 |
| Name variant (this document) | col(legii) den(drophorum) Ost(iensium) |
| Standard name of the group | dendrophori Ostiae |
| English standard name | tree-carriers |
| Standard reference | AE 1987, 00198 |
| References to other standard editions | AE 1987, 00198 = FTD-06, p 89 |
| Source type | inscription |
| Type of inscription | religious ; acta privata |
| Type of monument | basis |
| Main location | Ostia |
| Main province | Italia: Regio 01, Latium et Campania |
| Main admininistrative district | Latium et Campania (Regio I) |
| Post quem | 256 AD |
| Exact date | 256 AD |
| Ante quem | 256 AD |
| Notes on dating | Consular date |
| Corporate designation | collegium |
| Internal institutions | quinquennales perpetui ; plebs |
| Protectors | patroni |
| Collective action | epula ; distribute handouts from endowment |
| Collective assets | silver statuette ; endowment |
| Collective entitlements | |
| Public recognition and privileges | |
| Private duties and liabilities | celebrate birthday benefactor |
| Receive | silver statuette ; endowment ; handouts |
| Donate | |
| Notes |
The base of a silver statuette of Mater Magna, weighing 3 pounds, donated by a life-long quinquennalis of the association. The inscription records also the establishment of an endowment of 6,000 sesterces. From the interest (usura) of 180 sesterces the members should hold a banquet during which handouts had to be distributed (from the interest). If they fail to do so, the endowment has to go to the fabri tignuarii of Ostia under the same conditions. The benefactor stipulates conditions attached to the endowment, the plebs of the collegium solemnly accepts these (spopondit). In addition, at the occasion of the dedication of the statue the benefactor also distributed two denarii to each of the decuriones of the association.
The endowment is mentioned also in the inscription originally set up by Abascantus under Severus listing all endowments of the association (CIL 14, 00326)
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| Standard text of source | C(aius) Iul(ius) C(ai) f(ilius) Cocil(ius) Hermes / patr(onus) et q(uin)q(uennalis) / p(er)p(etuus) col(legii) / den(drophorum) Ost(iensium) / signum M(atris) M(agnae) ex argent(o) p(ondo) III et Z et SS / VI m(ilia) n(ummum) d(ono) d(edit) ut VI / Kal(endas) Iun(ias) die natalis sui de / ((denariis)) CLXXX usuras eorum epu/lentur et discumbentes / sportulas partiantur / quot(!) is observatum non / erit tunc s(ummas) s(upra) s(criptas) honoratis / coll(egii) fabr(um) tig(nuariorum) Ost(iensium) dari / volo sub condicione s(upra) s(cripta) / stipulatus est Cocilius / Hermes ispepond(it)(!) plebs / dedicat(um) Idib(us) Ianuaris / Maximo et Glabrione / co(n)s(ulibus) ob cuius d(edicationem) d(endrophoris*) dedit ispor(tulas)(!) ((denarios)) II |
| Translation |
Caius Iulius Cocilius Hermes, son of Caius, patron and life-long president of the guild of dendrophori of Ostia, has given as a gift a statue of the Great Mother in silver (weighing) three pounds and a half and the sum of six thousand sesterces, so that on the sixth day before the kalends of June (26 May), his birthday, from the 180 denarii interest from this sum, they should dine and reclining divide the handouts. If this (obligation) shall not be observed then I want the sum written above to be given to the honorati of the guild of carpenters/builders of Ostia under the condition written above. Cocilius has stipulated (these terms), the members (of the guild of dendrophori) have accepted them. Set up on the Ides of January, under the consulship of Maximus and Glabrio, for which dedication he has given to the decuriones (of the guild) two denarii handouts.
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| Notes on the source |
Van Haeperen, 'Ostia. Aire sacrée de Mater Magna (IV, 1)', in Van Haeperen 2019, https://books.openedition.org/cdf/6969
* Previous editors resolve the final clause OB CVIVS D D DEDIT ISPOR as ob cuius dedicationum decurionibus dedit etc. Given the context, however, dendrophoris dedit is preferable.
The inscription is set on a marble pedestal (59 x 35 x 28) upon which presumably the statue of Mater Magna was placed.
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