Fire-brigades: analysis of inscriptions of professional associations collegium centonariorum, dendrophorum, fabrum and fabrum tign(u)ariorum
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Society at the time of Roman Empire was highly hierarchical, which was also apply to the strata of the urban population. Therefore, members of the urban lower classes joined professional associations with the vision of getting the better social status. These associations – collegia represented „miniature cities“, in which people sought satisfaction of their needs and desires. It not only provided them with life security but also help develop social identity of its members. Some selected guilds were involved in keeping cities safe, as such they were used for the purpose of extinguishing fires, which were quite common in ancient times. Among these collegia were included centonarii, dendrophorii, fabri and fabri tignuarii. The presented paper analysis the preserved inscriptions of the mentioned associations and try to answer the questions regarding, what was the frequency of occurrence of individual associations and whether the presence of some associations prevailed over others. Did the collegia occur together? What types of cities were they located in? Was the situation in the western and eastern parts of the empire comparable or was it substantially different, as the reply of Trainus to Pliny the Younger suggests? |
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