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| Main location | Roma |
| Main province | Roma |
| Main administrative district | Roma |
| Date | |
| Early post quem | -7 BC |
| Exact date | 141 AD |
| Early ante quem | -7 BC |
| Late post quem | 326 AD |
| Late exact date | 162 AD |
| Late ante quem | 450 AD |
| Date notes | The creation or reorganisation date of the group can be derived from CIL 6, 10299, which combines 'lustra' with consular dates. |
| Category | fabri tignuarii |
| English standard name | carpenters |
| Sector | crafts |
| Subsector | building/carpentry |
| Specification | |
| Status | |
| Corporate designation | collegium ; corpus? |
| Internal institutions | ministri ; honorati ; censores ad magistros creandos ; magistri quinquennales ; quinqueviri ; nongentus ad suffragia ; lustra ; decuriae ; decuriones ; scribae ; immunes ; decreta ; procuratores? |
| Protectors | patroni |
| Collective action | dedications to Numen Fortunae, Minerva |
| Collective assets | schola ; plot of land with altar to Fortuna ; statue of Salus ; altar to Hercules invictus ; statue of Asclepius |
| Collective entitlements | |
| Public recognition and privileges | permission to use public space for monument |
| Private duties and liabilities | |
| Receive | altar to Fortuna and plot of land on which it stood ; statue of Salus ; altar to Hercules invictus ; statue of Asclepius ; handouts |
| Donate | |
| Notes |
The guild was subdivided into 60 decuriae (CIL 06, 33856). This number was probably fixed from the start since there were six magistri quinquennales (see below). An early columbarium (c. 1-50 CE) records the 10th decuria having 22 members (CIL 06, 09405). So the total number of members probably lay around 1300. Each decuria was headed by a decurio. Together they formed the ordo decurionum CIL 06, 00148; CIL 14, 02630). Decuriones were adlected by the ordo (CIL 06, 00148). Their term of office seems not to have been limited in time (CIL 14, 02630).
The decuriones and honorati together voted decreta on proposals put to them by the magistri quinquennales (CIL 06, 03678). They presumably formed the ordo mentioned in CIL 14, 02630.
The guild was presided by six magistri quinquennales who after their five-year term in office became honorati (CIL 14, 02630). They were probably usually elected from the ordo, but there may have been exeptions to this rule (cf. Royden 1988: 132).
All members most likely participated in the election of new magistri quinquennales. The existence of a specific (minor) office of nongentus ad suffragia (CIL 14, 02630) indicates the use of ballot-boxes (on the office of nongentus ad suffragia in public elections see Plin. N.H. 33, 31). (in that sense also Royden 1988: 131 against More 1969: 136-138).
There was, however, also a censor ad magistro creando (CIL 14, 02630). What his duties were is clear. He may have been responsible for vetting the candidates, overseeing the elections, and officially instating the succesful candidates. (More 1969: 142; Royden 1988: 131). But the singular ad magistrato creando could indicate he was charged with the nomination of a substitute when a magister died or needed to be replaced (see in that sense Royden (1988: 132).
The magistri quinquennales were assisted by six scribae (CIL 06, 33856), one for each magister quinquennalis.
In addition there were six slave ministri. The phrase ministri lustri secundi in CIL 06, 30982 indicates that the 'office' was a regular one. However, each minister served a magister quinquennalis who was his legal master and so was presumably chosen independently him him. Slaves are rarely attested as collegium members (Waltzing 1895-1900: I, 346-347), so the ministri themselves were probably not members of the collegium (in that sense Pearse 1975: 115).
Lastly there were twelve iudices elected by the ordo (CIL 14, 02630). Their exact competence is unknown but they must have served to solve disputes between members.
A benefactor of the 10th decuria presents himself as quinquevir (CIL 06, 09405). What this office comprised and whether it was an office of the guild is uncertain.
The schola of the guild was situated in the area of the Velabrum or near San Omobono. A highly prestigious location (Bollmann 1998: 250-252 (A 10); More 1969: 162-168).
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