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| Main location | Brixia |
| Main province | Italia: Regio 10, Venetia et Histria |
| Main administrative district | Venetia et Histria (Regio X) |
| Date | 1-300 CE |
| Early post quem | 1 AD |
| Exact date | |
| Early ante quem | 100 AD |
| Late post quem | 201 AD |
| Late exact date | |
| Late ante quem | 300 AD |
| Date notes | |
| Category | fabri |
| English standard name | craftsmen |
| Sector | crafts |
| Subsector | building and construction |
| Specification | |
| Status | |
| Corporate designation | collegium |
| Internal institutions | magistri ; officiales ; curatores ; praefectus municipalis? ; quaestores? |
| Protectors | patroni |
| Collective action | set up honorary and funerary monuments for local aristocrats, 'seviri augustales', 'benefactors', 'curator collegii' ; some honorands assume costs ; set up funerary monument to member ; perform funerary rites, libations and sacrifices |
| Collective assets | agellum, burial ground ; money ; endowments ; unspecified resources (facultates, res) ; slaves |
| Collective entitlements | |
| Public recognition and privileges | permission to use public space for monument |
| Private duties and liabilities | funerary rites to benefactor ; upkeep monument |
| Receive | legacies unspecified resources ; agellum ; endowments |
| Donate | |
| Notes |
The collegium was founded probably in the first century (05, 04386), possibly together with the collegium centonariorum with which it is often (but no always) associated.
Most inscriptions distinguish between the collegium fabrum and the centonoriorum, but the links between them were strong:
Yet the difference remained:
The collegium was directed by magistri (CIL 05, 04489). In at least one instance a person fulfilled the magisterium in "all the guilds" (CIL 05, 04489: in omnib(us) coll(egiis) / magisterio per/functus). This mentioned as a status marker, so it was presumably exceptional.
There may also have been quaestor (CIL 05, 04408), but the only inscription mentioning him may rather refer to a municipal office holder.
The inscription mentioning magistri (CIL 05, 04489 also mentions officiales who performed funerary sacrifices, but this is probably merely be a general term to denote office holders/
In addition there was a curator, shared at least sometimes with the collegium centonariorum (CIL 05, 04333). In the only attestation we have of this office the curator is a member of the civic elite and so very likely an outsider. How the magistri and their competences related to the curatores is unclear.
Brixia may have municipal praefecti fabrum (Pais 00682), but their relation to the collegium fabrum (it any at all!) is unknown.
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