Collegia in Roman Egypt

Reading up on some blogs I have overlooked or forgotten I stumbled over this again by Philip Harland: “Alive and kicking”: Associations and Roman law again. Here he, inter alia, refers to an article about the collegia in Roman Egypt I was not at all aware of, namely

Ilias N. Arnaoutoglou, “Collegia in the Province of Egypt in the First Century CE,” Ancient Society 35 (2005): 197-216.

Arnaoutoglou here obviously also deals with some of Philo's statements abaout these clubs and associations.
Harland offers some further comments, and also refers to my online article on 'Philo and the Graeco-Roman Clubs and asociations'.

The article by Arnaoutoglou is not available online, but if you click on the link above to Ancient Society, you can order it.
The author's own summary of the article runs like this:

"ln this article I explore the apparent discrepancy between the restrictive statutory Roman legislation on collegia and the documentation on associations in 1st-century Egypt. After exploration of the legal background, I examine the testimony of Philo, ln Flaccum 4, which reveals that the dissolution of hetaireiai and synodoi is not part of an empire-wide ban, but is firmly embedded in the history of Alexandria and in the urge of its prefect A. Flaccus to re-establish law and order. The second testimony providing the imposition of a fine on people taking part in associations, Gnomon of the ldios Logos §108, is so fragmentary as to allow only speculation about its context. It could preserve a clause either from A. Flaccus’ restrictions or from a tax regulation. The investigation suggests that the discrepancy between the literary tradition of a general ban and the documentary evidence on collegia is probably superficial, and it can be reconciled, if we reconsider the nature and the extent of the prohibition imposed by A. Flaccus, as a local and temporary police measure aiming to dissolve the nuclei of opposition and anti-Roman feeling in early 1st-century Alexandria."