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| Id | 1189 |
| Person id-code | Cornelius Thallus 001 |
| Name | Cornelius Thallus, P., P. f. |
| Gender | male |
| Gentilicia | CORNELIA |
| Cognomina | Thallus |
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| Free text (when person flourished) | ca. 101-150 |
| Post quem (when person flourished) | 101 AD |
| Ante quem (when person flourished) | 150 AD |
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| Legal status | libertus? |
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| Citizen status | civis romanus |
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CIL 06, 00148 ; 10299
Royden 1988: 167-168, no. 211; Solin 2002: 135-136; Tran 2006: 197; Meiggs 1973: 211.
His Greek cognomen suggests Thallus was a freedman or of freedman descent. Nevertheless, based on the onomastic "P. Cornelii Architecti fil." Royden assumed that Thallus was freeborn. Dessau (CIL 14, 00005) and later Solin (2002: 135-136) rightly note that this is inconclusive, given the attachment of the filiation to the tria nomina, rather than the praenomen of the father.
The cognomen of his father P. Cornelius Architectus suggests a freedman trained and active as an architect. (see Solin loc. cit.) Presumably he too was member of the collegium fabrum tignuariorum.
Thallus was magister quinquennalis of the collegium fabrum tignuariorum at Rome during the guilds' 27th lustrum, between 124-128 CE. He donated a statue of Fides to the guild, which was almost certainly set up in the guilds' schola.
His son, P. Clodius Architectianus was adlected into the ordo decurionum. There has been considerable debate on whether this refers to the ordo decurionum of the guild (More 1969: 101-102; Royden 1988: 167-168, no. 211; Tran 2006: 197) or to a municipal ordo decurionrum (in that sense i.a.Meiggs 1973: 211; Solin 2002: 135-136). But if one accepts the attribution to Rome, and therefore the schola of the fabri tignuarii of Rome, the decuriones could only have been those of the collegium fabrum tignuariorum. (see the notes on CIL 06, 00148 for this discussion)
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