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Last Updated on 15 Mar 2017

Author: Jessica Piccinini

CAPInv. 1068: collecius (l. collegium) Serapis et Iunonis

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) collecius (l. collegium) Serapis et Iunonis (AE 1965: 154, ll. 3-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) collecius (l. collegium) Serapis et Iunonis

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 171 - 250 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:Serapis and Iuno
iii. Descriptive terms collegium
Note collegium: AE 1965: 154, l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) AE 1965: 154 (AD 171-250)
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i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script AE 1965: 154 is a funerary Latin inscription.
i.c. Physical format(s) AE 1965: 154 is a squared marble stele, consisting of two fragments.
ii. Source(s) provenance AE 1965: 154 is from a private collection in Locri (Reggio Calabria).

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds AE 1965: 154 testifies that the stele was erected using the money of the collegium Serapis et Iunonis. Whether it was a donation ad hoc or money coming from the treasury of the collegium, it is not possible to state.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Women
Note The only known member attested by the inscription is Tauriana.
iii. Age Adults
Note AE 1965: 154 mentions only the age of an adult, Tauriana, who was 60 years old, at the time of her death (see Tran 2006: 56-57).
iv. Status Tauriana was likely a slave (see Tran 2006: 56-57).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Buonocore, M. (1987), ‘Locri’, Supplementa Italica 3: 11-36, esp. 25.
Costabile, F. (1976), Municipium Locrensium, Istituzioni ed organizzazione sociale di Locri romana. Napoli 1976: 35.
Tran, N. (2006), Les membres des associations romaines, Le rang social des collegiati en Italie et en Gaule, sous le Haut-Empire, Rome: 56-57.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note We are likely to have here an association because of the term collegium used to define this group and for its cultic character.