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Last Updated on 15 Mar 2017

Author: Jessica Piccinini

CAPInv. 1067: collecius (l. collegium) geni municipi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) collecius geni municipi (AE 1902: no. 83, ll. 4-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) collecius (l. collegium) geni municipi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 171 - 300 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:genius municipi
iii. Descriptive terms collegium, collegium
Note collegium: AE 1902: no. 83, l. 4

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) AE 1902: no. 83 (AD 171 - 300)
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i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script AE 1902: no. 83 is a Latin funerary inscription on marble stele.
i.c. Physical format(s) AE 1902: no. 83 is a marble stele, consisting of six fragments.
ii. Source(s) provenance AE 1902: no. 83 was found in 1902 in a necropolis in Locri (Reggio Calabria), contrada San Francesco, fondo Scannapieco.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The money of the collegium geni municipi and the wife, used for the erection of the stele, might have been gathered ad hoc.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
iii. Age Adults

XII. NOTES

i. Comments AE 1902: no. 83 is the first attestation of the cult of Genius Municipi in Lokroi (cf. Buonocore 1987: 24).
iii. Bibliography Buonocore, M. (1987), ‘Locri’, Supplementa Italica 3: 11-36, esp. 24.
Costabile, F. (1976), Municipium Locrensium, Istituzioni ed organizzazione sociale di Locri romana. Napoli: 37.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The possibility that we are dealing with an association lies in the terminology, collegium (collecius in the inscription), used to define this group and for cultic element related to it. It is not clear, however, whether the cult of the genius municipi, and consequently the collegium, was public or private.