Establishing, displaying and strengthening group identity by making offerings and producing texts : some case studies from Ostia's guilds
(2017) Religion in the Roman Empire — Vol. 3, p. 87-118 (2017)
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- Ancient guilds produced texts that were set up in their seat or in public spaces (forum, temples). Among these texts, inscriptions commemorated offerings made on behalf of the collegium or by individual members. Focusing on some guilds of Ostia, harbour city of Rome, this paper will explore in which ways these texts could establish, display and strengthen the group identity. Considering both the text and the layout of the inscriptions, I will examine whether these offerings reveal some features distinguishing a guild identity and how these features were expressed. Furthermore the information provided by these texts allows a better understanding of the guilds’ lived religion, religious practices and worshipped gods.
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Van Haeperen, F. (2017). Establishing, displaying and strengthening group identity by making offerings and producing texts : some case studies from Ostia’s guilds. Religion in the Roman Empire, 3, 87-118. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/92853 (Original work published 2017)