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Last Updated on 15 Mar 2017

Author: Jessica Piccinini

CAPInv. 1065: U-SIS-005

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Southern Italy with Sicily
ii. Region Calabria
iii. Site Rhegion

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-SIS-005

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 79 AD

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) CIL X 7 (AD 79)
Online Resources TM 247140
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script CIL X 7 is marble stele. It is a Latin honorific decree for the generosity of the sacratae.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in Pellaro (Reggio Calabria).

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members The members are referred to as dendrophoroi (tree-bearers) in l. 2: the term is related to the practice of felling, decorating and carrying the sacred pine in the mourning procession in memory of Attis.
Perhaps the women honored for their munificentia (l. 1) towards the dendrophoroi were also members of the local associations.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Women
Note Perhaps the women honored for their munificentia towards the dendrophoroi were also members of the local associations.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The activities of the dendrophoroi were presumably part of the cultic activities in honor of Attis and Magna Mater.
Deities worshipped Attis and and Magna Mater (?)

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Liu, J. (2009), Collegia centonariorum, The Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West. Leiden: 52-4.
Van Haeperen, F. (2012), ‘Collèges de dendrophores et authorités locales et romaines’, in M. Dondin-Payre and N. Tran (eds.), Collegia, Le phénomène associatif dans l'Occident romain, Paris: 47-62.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Although the term collegium to define the group is here missing, likely the dendrophoroi here mentioned were members of a local association with cultic functions as attested elsewhere in region (CIL X 445; CIL X 8100; CIL X 8107-8108; CIL X 451).