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Id	2259
Person id-code	Anonymus AE 1993, 00595
Name	Anonymus AE 1993, 00595
Gender	male
Gentilicia
Cognomina
Tribus
Name comments
Free text (when person flourished)
Post quem (when person flourished)	-50 BC
Ante quem (when person flourished)	200 AD
Notes on life data
Geography notes
Legal status	ingenuus ?
Servile affiliation
Citizen status	civis romanus
Local citizenship or ethinicity
Ordo affiliation	ordo decurionum?
Highest civic rank	quattuorvir?
Honorary civic status
Honorary positions
Apparitor
Apparitorial Rank
Military status
Military Rank
Status notes and comments	The inscription is very fragmentary. The Anonymus here documented had been 'quattuorvir' and 'quaestor' and had some connection to the 'fabri'. Since he does not appear to have transcended the local level, the 'fabri' in question are most likely also local and we are not dealing with an equestian 'praefectus fabrum'. The municipal institutions of Urbs Salviae are badly documented. We hear of: a decurio (CIL 9, 5542; 5560) a quaestor (AE 1993, 595 (this person)) an aedilis (CIL 9, 5539) quattuorviri (CIL 9, 5538 ; 5540; 5543?; AE 1993, 595 (this person)) a quinquennalis (CIL 9, 5533; 6365) a praetor quinquennalis (AE 1969/70, 00183a = EAOR-03, 78) Curiously, while one of the 'decuriones' is an 'eques romanus' (CIL 9, 5542), and both the '(praetores) quinquennales' are high ranking imperial senators, one of the 'quattuorviri' is explicitly a 'libertus' (L. Annius L.l. Capriolus (CIL 9, 5538) and none are certainly 'ingenui'. The 'quattuorvirate' at Urbs Salvia is on the whole exceptional in Picenum (cf. Delplace 1983: 766-767). Other towns had 'duumviri'. Delplace dismisses this as a remnant of Urbs Salvia's former history as a 'praefecture'. Marengo (1990), however, argues that the 'quattuorviri' were not civil magistrates but representatives of private associations or a semi-religious association such as the 'octoviri' documented in Firmum and Falerio or the 'tresviri' recorded in Amiternum, and more widely the 'seviri (augustales)'. A lost inscription from Trea (CIL 9, 5655) may even have documented a 'quattuorvir Augustalis'. This leaves two possible interpretations: 1° 'quattuorvir' and 'quaestor' are civic offices and the Anonymus was 'patron' of 'praefectus' of the local '(collegium) fabrum' 2° 'quattuorvir (augustalis)' was a non-elite dignity conffered on wealthy and honourable non-elites (as the 'augustalitas') and the Anonymus was 'quaestor collegii fabrum', a title documented for 'collegium fabrum' in Patavium (CIL 5, 2850; AE 1976, 235) and not uncommon also in other types of 'collegium'.