Guild Document "fabri Lambaesis CIL 08, 02690       "

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Document name fabri Lambaesis CIL 08, 02690       
Name variant (this document) mag(istri) / fabr(um)
Standard name of the group fabri Lambaesis
English standard name craftsmen
Standard reference CIL 08, 02690     
References to other standard editions CIL 08, 02690 = CIL 08, 18110          
Source type inscription
Type of inscription religious
Type of monument
Main location Lambaesis
Main province Numidia
Main admininistrative district
Post quem 126 AD
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Ante quem 300 AD
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Internal institutions magistri
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Notes Amraoui 2016.

The inscription might refer to a military 'collegium' (in this sense Sander 1962: 147, n. 45, cf. CIL  7, 49 (Bath): ex col(l)egio fabrice(nsium)). There appears to be a reference to the Ala I Pannoniorum, but how this was involved in the setting up the monument is unclear. So it could just as well be connected with a 'collegium fabrum' of the 'municipium' (sinds 203 CE) or the 'colonia' (since 244/249 CE) of Lambaesis. The existence of the freedman Collegius Fabricius (in CIL 8, 3545) strongly suggests that there was civilian 'collegium fabrum' in Lambaesis.
Standard text of source
]MV / [---]NEI/ [---]S dec(urio?) / [alae] I Pann(oniorum) / [---]R[---]s et / Maximi/us Com/modia/nus mag(istri) / fabr(um) vo/tum ss(olverunt)
Translation
decurio of the first cavalry detachment of the Pannonians … and Maximius Commodianus, Masters of the craftsmen have fulfilled their vow.
Notes on the source Dated by Verboven: the Legio III Augusta moved to Lambaesis c. 123-128 CE. The Ala I Pannoniorum had been in the area since Julio-Claudian times. The 'praenomen (absent here) stays more common in northern Africa until the fourth century.