Guild "fabri Lugduni"

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Main location Lugdunum
Main province Lugdunensis
Main administrative district
Date 101 - 310 CE
Early post quem 101 AD
Exact date
Early ante quem 200 AD
Late post quem 176 AD
Late exact date
Late ante quem 310 AD
Date notes
Category fabri
English standard name craftsmen
Sector crafts
Subsector building and construction
Specification
Status
Corporate designation collegium ; corpus
Internal institutions corporati ; omnes honores ; pertinens ; quaestores ; praefecti?
Protectors patroni
Collective action
Collective assets burial ground
Collective entitlements
Public recognition and privileges
Private duties and liabilities
Receive sportula? ; burial ground ; statue for Genius collegii
Donate
Notes
The fabri tignuarii at Lugdunum, like the centonarii and the dendrophori, probably formed two different collegia, one of the colony (Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum) and one of the community of consistentes. The documents, however, are equivocal as to how they were related.
 
>The strongest indication for an association connected to the Colonia is a dedication to the Genius of the splendidissimum corpus fabrorum tignariorum, set up, it seems, on their common burial ground . The qualification splendidissimus is most often associated with the ordo decurionum (Tran 2006: 34) and so this corpus must be have belonged to the colonia:
  • Genio splendidissimi corporis fabrorum tign[ar(iorum)] CIL 13, 01734
 
The existence of a corpus of fabri tignuarii consistentes is explicitly confimed by four inscriptions:
  • patron(o) … fabror(um) Lugud(uni) con/sist(entium) CIL 13, 01954
  • corpo/[ra]ti inter fabros tign(uarios) / Lug(uduni) consist(entes) CIL 13, 01939:
  • corporat(i) inter fabros / tign(arios) Lug(uduni) consist(entes) (CIL 13, 01966)
  • fab(ri) / [tign(uarii)] Lug(uduni) cons(istentis)  / [om]nib(us) hono/[rib(us) a]pud eos fu/[nc]t(i) / pat(roni) eiusd(em) / [co]rp(oris) (CIL 13, 01967)
 
One simply refers to a faber tignarius Lugduni but the person in question (Sennius Metilus) was a Treveran residing in Lugdunum (a consistens Lugduni)
  • fabro tig/nuario Lug(uduni) CIL 13, 02029
Similarly, another inscription refers to a consistens Lugduni who 'belonged' (pertinens) to the collegium fabrorum
  • consistentis / Luguduni perti/nentis ad collegi/um fabror(um) CIL 13, 01978
 
One inscription refers to a curator of the negotiatores vinarii Lugduni in cannabis consistentes who was also praefectus of an unknown association (AE 1909, 00081) that may have been the fabri but equally well the nautae Rhodanici or even another guild.
 
One refers to a young blacksmith who was a member of the fabri tignuarii at Lugdunum:
  • corpo/rato inter fabros tign(arios) Lugud(uni) (CIL 13, 02036)