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| Main location | Ostia |
| Main province | Italia: Regio 01, Latium et Campania |
| Main administrative district | Latium et Campania (Regio I) |
| Date | 58-400 CE |
| Early post quem | 58 AD |
| Exact date | 141 AD |
| Early ante quem | 62 AD |
| Late post quem | 285 AD |
| Late exact date | 285 AD |
| Late ante quem | 400 AD |
| Date notes | |
| Category | fabri tignuarii |
| English standard name | carpenters |
| Sector | crafts |
| Subsector | building/carpentry |
| Specification | |
| Status | |
| Corporate designation | collegium |
| Internal institutions | praefecti ; magistri quinquennales ; honorati ; curatores ; curam agentes ; conventus ; numerus militum caligatorum ; lustra ; scribae ; ordo ; decuriones ; decuriales scribae ; decuriae |
| Protectors | patroni |
| Collective action | dedicate temple to emperor ; set up honorary monuments to emperors, patrons, benefactors, 'magistri' quinquennalis' ; |
| Collective assets | money ; temple ; statio ; silver statuettes and other valuable adornments |
| Collective entitlements | |
| Public recognition and privileges | permission to use public space for monument |
| Private duties and liabilities | |
| Receive | sportula ; endowments ; secondary right to endowments ; 'plura beneficia' ; silver statuettes |
| Donate | |
| Notes |
Rohde 2012: 164-180 ; Meiggs 1973: 319-321 (and passim) ; Tran 2004
Wilson (1935: 52) dated the foundation of the guild to 58 CE based on a comparison of CIL 14, 00128 and CIL 14, 04569. The latter is dated to 198 CE and provides a list of common members (caligati). Among these (at the head of decuriae) we find the three quinquennales of lustrum XXIX documented in CIL 14, 00128. That implies that lustrum XXIX had not yet begun in 198 CE. But in fact this only proves that 58 CE is the earliest possible foundation date. The date range for the creation is thus 58-62 CE, the first lustrum would fall in the years 58-66, the second in the year 63-71 and so forth. (see also Meiggs 1997: 331)
Royden (1988: 25-26) mistakenly uses the mention of lustrum XXVIII in CIL 14, 04365,which he dates to 193-195 CE, to infer that 198 CE had to fall in lustrum XXVIII. In fact the (very plausible restoration) of lust(ri) X[XVIII] in this inscription was based on the argument by Wilson (1935: 52) set out above. Royden also misread CIL 14, 05345, which does not carry the consular date corresponding to 3 Feb. 184 CE.
The collegium was subdivided into 16 decuriae (CIL 14, 00160 ; 04569), headed by a decurio (CIL 14, 00128b ; 00330; 00374). The members of the decuriae, including the decurio, were called (milites) caligati and together a numerus (CIL 14, 00128b; 00160 ; 00374 ; 00419 ; 04569). In 198 CE each decuria comprised 19-24 members, a total at the time of 351. The numers caligatorum is twice recorded as dedicating an honorary statue (CIL 14, 00160 ; 004569), so there were at least occasional assemblies, called conventus in AE 1940, 0062.
Among the milites caligati, there was at least one scriba (CIL 14, 04569; see also CIL 14, 00347 ; 00418 ; 00419).
There were three magistri quinquennales per lustrum (AE 1974, 00123a ; AE 1988, 00200 ; AE 1988, 00204 ; AE 1989, 00124 ; AE 1989, 00126; CIL 10, 00541 ; 14, 00128a ; 00296 ; 00299 ; 00314 ; 00371 ; 00374 ; 00418 ; 00419 ; 00430 ; 04300 ; 04365 ; 04633+04725 ; 04642 ; 04654 ; 04656 ; 5341 ; 5345).
After their term in office, the magistri became honorati (AE 1987, 00198 ; 00199 ; CIL 14, 00128b ; 00370). These could pass decrees (CIL 14, 00370) so they presumably also formed an ordo presided by the magistri qq in office.
Sometimes a praefectus headed the guild (AE 1955, 00169 ; CIL 14, 00298 ; 00303 ; maybe also 00359 and ILOP 00002).
The guld owned a large complex (Ostia I,XII,1) with a chapel and triclinia, which served as its schola. It was built in the early years of Hadrian, c. 120 CE and remained in use until late antiquity. In 194 or 195 CE the guild dedicated a large temple to Divus Pertinax (CIL 14, 04365+04382; Ostia V,XI,1), which could also be used for social events and administrative business. An inscription (AE 1940, 0062) mentions the creation of a statio in 143 CE (not identified) connected to the imperial cult that possibly belonged to the collegium fabrum tignuariorum is attested in 143 CE. (cf. also AE 1940, 00063 coming from the same building).
It received numerous valuable gifts and handouts, as well as an important endowment the exact amount of which is unfortunately not preserved (AE 1940, 0062) and was instituted secondary beneficiary of a endowment to the collegium of the dendrophori (AE 1987, 00199).
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