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Abstract
The Fasti Antiates Ministrorum Domus Augustae, a large inscription associated with the imperial villa at Antium, is best known for its iteration of the Augustan calendar. In this article, I reassess the fasti in their entirety, focusing on their manner of display and social function. I place special emphasis on the section of the inscription, largely overlooked, that contains the annual records of magistrates who led the voluntary association that commissioned the inscription, a detailed record of two decades of local history. The association revealed in these records worked to bestow honors on its members, offering them prestige within and beyond the household, and also acted to censure them. Because the fasti identify most magistrates by job title, they also provide invaluable information about the villa’s workforce, composed of enslaved people and freedmen; the document provides a valuable counterpoint to other testimonia for occupations, largely funerary. Manual laborers and domestics appear with greater frequency in the fasti than they do in occupational inscriptions from funerary contexts, while administrators, abundant in funerary contexts, form a minority. Importantly, the magistrates’ list reveals that the association was a group in which the “sub-clerical grades” of imperial slaves and freedmen could accrue prestige and wield authority as readily as their overseers. In the community reflected in the fasti, power derived not from job status within a workplace hierarchy, but from social standing among peers—acquired and maintained (or lost) over decades of service.
在安提乌姆为皇帝工作:Fasti Antiates Ministrorum Domus Augustae 中的职业与声望
Fasti Antiates Ministrorum Domus Augustae 是与安提乌姆(Antium)帝王别墅有关的大型铭文,因其对奥古斯都历法的演绎而闻名于世。在这篇文章中,我将重新评估整个碑文,重点关注其展示方式和社会功能。我特别强调了碑文中大部分被忽视的部分,其中包含地方行政长官的年度记录,他们领导着委托撰写碑文的自愿协会,详细记录了二十年的地方历史。这些记录所揭示的协会致力于为其成员授予荣誉,为他们在家族内外提供声望,同时也对他们进行指责。由于 fasti 按职称标明了大多数地方行政官的身份,它们还提供了有关别墅劳动力(由被奴役者和自由人组成)的宝贵信息;该文件为其他职业(主要是殡葬业)的证词提供了宝贵的反证。与墓葬中的职业铭文相比,体力劳动者和家政人员在 fasti 中出现的频率更高,而在墓葬中大量出现的行政人员却只占少数。重要的是,行政长官名单显示,在这个团体中,"次等级 "的帝国奴隶和自由民可以像他们的监工一样轻松地积累声望和行使权力。在 fasti 所反映的群体中,权力不是来自工作场所等级制度中的工作地位,而是来自同侪之间的社会地位--在数十年的服务中获得并保持(或失去)。