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| Document name | fabri et centonarii Mediolani CIL 05, 05892 (aerarii, fabri) |
| Name variant (this document) | coll(egi) / aerar(i aut iorum?) c(oloniae) A(- - |
| Standard name of the group | fabri Mediolani |
| English standard name | bronze smiths |
| Standard reference | CIL 05, 05892 |
| References to other standard editions | CIL 05, 05892 = D 06731 |
| Source type | inscription |
| Type of inscription | honorary |
| Type of monument | herma |
| Main location | Mediolanum |
| Main province | Italia: Regio 11, Transpadana |
| Main admininistrative district | Transpadana (Regio XI) |
| Post quem | 180 AD |
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| Ante quem | 268 AD |
| Notes on dating | Date post quem: awarded colonial status to Mediolanum by Commodus (Zoia 2017); date ante quem: new titulature under Gallienus (Colonia Galliena Augusta Felix) |
| Corporate designation | collegium |
| Internal institutions | centuriae |
| Protectors | patroni |
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| Notes |
Mommsen (ad CIL 05, 635, 1191) and Hirschfeld (1884: 255) identified this collegium with the collegium fabrum et centonariorum, based on its similar subdivision in 12 centuriae and both having a repunctor (CIL 05, 05847), an office nowhere else attested.
Cracco Ruggini (1996: 17) and Liu (2009: 143-145) prefer the reading of De Ruggiero (I, 312-313) collegium aerar(iorum), "guild of bronze workers". Cracco Ruggini believed this was merely another name for the collegium fabrum. Liu sees them as a separate collegium of bronze workers (aerarii). (Waltzing did not prefer the reading aerariorum, contrary to what Liu thinks, perhaps following Garnsey 1976: 19, who made the same claim).
But the arguments of Mommsen and Hirschfeld are more convincing. The 12 centuriae not only indicate the great size of the collegium aerar(ii) guild; centuriae only rarely occur as a subdivision of collegium, the more common subdivision being that in decuriae. The collegium fabrum et centonariorum at Milan was subdivided into 12 centuriae, each of which in turn were subdivided into decuriae. Elsewhere only the fabri soliarii baxiarii in Rome are known to have been subdivided into 3 centurae (CIL 06, 09404); the fabri of Cologne in at least 5 centuriae (Finke 00293); the centonarii of Comum in an unknown number (CIL 05, 05446) (see in this sense also Boscolo 2003: 412-414).
There may be a connection with one of the various names used for the group: the "guild of craftsmen and clothment of the Titiana treasury of the colony Aurelia Augusta of Mediolanum (AE 1997, 00534: collegi(i) fab(rum) / et centonariorum arces / Titianae c(oloniae) A() A(ugustae) M(ediolani).
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| Standard text of source |
Gen(io) et [H]on(ori) / P(ubli) Tutili / Callifontis / VIvir(i) sen(ioris) / patr(oni) ((centuriarum)) XII coll(egi) / aerar(i aut iorum?) c(oloniae) A(- - -) A(ugustae) M(ediolani) / neg(otiatoris) stip(ulatoris) arg(entarii)* / splendid(issimi) et / Iun(oni) Publiciae / C(ai) f(iliae) Pomponiai / <s=T>t(olatae?) [f(eminae)?] coniug(is) eius / et Iun(oni) Tutiliae / P(ubli) f(iliae) Pomponian(ae) / Constantii vivatis / L(ucius) Romatius / Valerian(us) et / Vocatia / Valeria cum / filis clientes
* stip(ulatoris) arg(entarii): Andreau 1987: 176 ; stip(is) arg(entariae): Mommsen (ad CIL 05, 05892)
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| Translation |
To the Genius and Honour of Publius Tutilius Callifon, senior sevir, patron of the twelve centuriae of the guild of treasury (or of the bronze workers?) of the colony of … Augusta Mediolanum, businessman and distinguished stipulation banker; and to the Iuno of Publicia Pomponia, daughter of Caius, honourable lady? (femina stolata), his wife; and to the Iuno of Tutilia Pomponiana, daughter of Publius.
May the Constantii live!
Lucius Romatius Valerianus and Vocatia Valeria, with their children, his clientes.
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| Notes on the source |
Andreau (1987: 176) interprets stipulator argentarius as a appointed office, created in some cities to replace the commercial argentarii during auctions. The qualification splendidus would then emphasize Callifon's connection to the city of Milan.
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