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| Main location | Aesernia |
| Main province | Italia: Regio 04, Samnium |
| Main administrative district | Samnium (Regio IV) |
| Date | 1-100 CE |
| Early post quem | 1 AD |
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| Early ante quem | 60 AD |
| Late post quem | 1 AD |
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| Late ante quem | 100 AD |
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| Category | fabri |
| English standard name | craftsmen |
| Sector | crafts |
| Subsector | building and construction |
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| Status | |
| Corporate designation | collegium |
| Internal institutions | quinquennales |
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| Collective action | |
| Collective assets | burial ground |
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| Notes |
The collegium was founded before c. 60 CE, making it one of the earliest outside Rome.
It owned a largely funerary building, identified by an inscription on a stele as belonging to the conlegium fabrum Aeserninorum (CIL 09, 06782). With maybe one exception (CIL 09, 02683), all information comes from the inscriptions found with this building. Most of these merely mention the names of the deceased. Their membership may be deduced from the association with the monument.
The only office mentioned is that of quinquennalis. (CIL 09, CIL 09, 02683 ; 06776).
Most of the members were freedmen or clearly of freedman descent. Their coverings of the urns represent the sides of wooden coffers with locks, as would have been placed in the atrium of their houses. Diebner (1979: 37, 54, 155-156) and d'Henry (1991) interpret this as symbolising their social success and (modest) wealth.
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