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I. LOCATION

i.	Geographical area	Macedonia
ii.	Region	Northern Paionia
iii.	Site	Stoboi

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	κολλήγιον (Babamova 2012: no. 100, ll. 4-5)
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	kollegion

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

a. 212 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii.	Descriptive terms	κολλήγιον, kollegion
	Note	kollegion: Babamova 2012: no. 100, ll. 4-5, 7 The transliterated Latin term collegium was common in all sorts of associations in the Greek East.

V. SOURCES

i.	Source(s)	Babamova 2012: no. 100 (iii AD)
	Note	Aurelios Seberos, the name of the secunda rudis, suggests a date after the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD. Other editions: SEG 47: 954.
	Online Resources	SEG 47: 954
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	A Greek funerary inscription
i.c.	Physical format(s)	Small undecorated funerary plaque (rather than stele, as the first editors)
ii.	Source(s) provenance	The inscription was found at Mušanci, very close to Stoboi.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i.

Archaeological remains

Nigdelis 2000: 145, tentatively suggests that there may have been a distinct enclosure in a cemetery reserved for members of the gladiatorial association (as was the case in Beroia), which is why there is no reference in the inscription to the weapons used by the deceased during his gladiatorial career.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii.	Leadership	Aurelios Seberos, προστάτης τοῦ κολληγίου, prostates tou kollegiou (ll. 3-5), was evidently the college's leader.
ix.	Privileges	As so often in the context of associations, the association paid for part of the cost for the funerary monuments of its members.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i.

Treasury/Funds

The funerary monument was paid for partly from the association's own funds (ll. 6-7: ἐκ τοῦ κολληγίου, ek tou kollegiou) and partly from private funds of the leader of the association.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv.

Status

Given that the leader of the association was a secunda rudis, a second judge in gladiatorial games, this was certainly a gladiatorial association. The first editors of the inscription (Bouley and Proeva 1997) claimed that the members of this gladiatorial association, of the one attested in Beroia (see CAPInv. 512) and of other such associations were never ex-gladiators, unless this was explicitly stated. This view, however, is contradicted by the correct interpretation of the phrase following the name of the deceased: Kaukasos was not a former strategos, supposedly an official of the gladiatorial games as the first editors understood (ll. 5-6: Καυκάσῳ τῷ πρὶν στρατηγῷ, Kaukasoi toi prin strategoi), but simply a gladiator originally named Strategos, who then became known by his professional name Kaukasos (Καυκάσῳ τῷ πρὶν Στρατηγῷ, Kaukasoi toi prin Strategoi); see D. Feissel in An.Ép. 1997: no. 1353 and, independently, Nigdelis 2000: 143-5. The gladiatorial association of Stobi, therefore, consisted both of ex-gladiators and of judges and other ministri of the games.

XII. NOTES

iii.

Bibliography

Babamova, S. (2012), Inscriptiones Stoborum. Stobi: no 100.
Bouley, É., and Proeva, N. (1997), ‘Un secunda rudis président d’un collège à Stobi en Macédoine romaine’, in C. Brixhe (ed.), Poikila Epigraphica, Paris: 83-7.
Nigdelis, P.M. (2000), ‘Μακεδονικὰ ἐπιγραφικά’, Tekmeria 5: 133-48.

XIII. EVALUATION

i.	Private association	Certain
	Note	This group of gladiatorial professionals at Stobi possessed a collective name and a leader, therefore its nature as a private associations is certain.

CAPInv. 510: kollegion