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| Main location | Ostia |
| Main province | Italia: Regio 01, Latium et Campania |
| Main administrative district | Latium et Campania (Regio I) |
| Date | |
| Early post quem | 191 AD |
| Exact date | |
| Early ante quem | 195 AD |
| Late post quem | 195 AD |
| Late exact date | |
| Late ante quem | 225 AD |
| Date notes | |
| Category | fabri navales |
| English standard name | shipwrights |
| Sector | crafts |
| Subsector | shipbuilding |
| Specification | |
| Status | |
| Corporate designation | corpus |
| Internal institutions | tribuni? ; quinquennales perpetui? ; quinquennales ; honorati ; matres ; amatores ; plebs ; sesquiplicarii ; aeditimi ; immunes |
| Protectors | patroni? |
| Collective action | |
| Collective assets | |
| Collective entitlements | |
| Public recognition and privileges | senatorial permission |
| Private duties and liabilities | |
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| Notes |
Following Dessau (in CIL 14, p. 8) Waltzing (1895: II,77) supposed the existence of two separate guilds of shipwrights, resp. of Ostia and of Portus. He was followed by nearly all later scholars, including Meiggs (1997: 324; see Royden 1988: 30-33 for the discussion).
But Dessau's idea was based exclusively on an inscription mentioning a tribunus fabrum navalium Portensium who was also patronus of the fabri navales Ostiensium (CIL 14, 169; cf. also the almost identical later found inscription AE 1955, 177). Bloch (1953: 285) identified an album of a corpus fabrum navalium found in Portus (CIL 14, 256) as belonging to this guild, both because it was found in Portus and because there was little or no overlap in the names with another album found in Ostia near the temple of the 'fabri navales'.
Tran (2006: 314-316) notes that the lack over overlap is not telling much since we cannot date the inscription from Portus very accurately. He doubts the independent existence of the corpus fabrum navalium Portensium, separate from the corpus fabrum navalium Ostiensium (see note on the 'related documents').
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