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Collegium<\/h1>\n
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Inscription dedicated to Liber Pater and Mercury by Cinnamus, Trajan’s slave and administrator of the wine warehouse. Presented to the collegium of wine traders in thanks for an exemption in guild fees. The notation for the collegium appears as ‘collegio’ in the first word of the first line of the inscription. From the Museo Nazionale Romano, Terme di Diocleziano.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A collegium<\/em> (plural: collegia<\/em>) was a civil or religious organization. The word is derived from the Latin collega<\/em>; a partner, associate, or colleague. A collegium<\/em> is literally the joining together of such individuals linked by a common interest or goal. In a civic context, collegia<\/em> could be formed as any number of organized groups; trade guilds seem to be one of the more common occurrences of such groups in the archaeological and historical record. The organization of a collegium<\/em> was subject to recognition by the state after the passage of the Lex Julia in the late 1st<\/sup> century BCE, and at times the practice was banned or limited by the government. Collegia<\/em> could be lawfully recognized groups or groups which did not have the recognition of the state and were operating without the blessing of the state. These groups could function as modern unions of sorts and could be used to lobby and exert political pressure on the state for furthering an agenda that benefitted the members enrolled in the collegium<\/em>. Religious collegia<\/em> were organizations related to specific priesthoods and the maintenance of cults or religious rites. Membership in one of these organizations (religious or civic) was not mutually exclusive to membership in other collegia<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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