Naslov
Craft and Cult of an Association in Roman Salona

Autori
Dora Ivanišević

Izvornik
Radovi (Zavod za hrvatsku povijest) (0353-295X) 53 (2021), 2; 9-46

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Salona, epigraphic culture, association of builders (collegium fabrum), cult of Hercules, imperial piety, provincial loyalty

Sažetak
A small dossier of Latin inscriptions inscribed on various types of support, which seems to record an annual ritual performed on February 1st by an unspecified association (collegium), is a peculiar feature of the epigraphic culture of Salona and of the Latin West in late antiquity. By staying grounded in the archaeological and epigraphic record of Salona, this article identifies the association as the association of builders (collegium fabrum) and shows that this dossier represents the records of its central cult of Hercules that it kept on inscribing from the first half of the third through the early fourth centuries. The article argues that the Salonitan builders harmonized their cult with the official, imperially-endorsed cult of Hercules celebrated on February 1st in Rome, in order to secure themselves a more efficacious divine protection and to show their piety and loyalty toward the emperor. Apart from religion, the association of builders also displayed its loyalty to ruling emperors by honoring them with statues, and through its act of the damnatio memoriae of the politically disfavored figure.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Povijest, Arheologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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