Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1491.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1491 AshLI 188 Coll. Ref: 7 Roman catalogue: 371

A rectangular stamp on an almost complete brick. The surface of the brick is rather pitted and abraded. The stamp is currently not accessible for measuring.

The text is stamped on three lines in hollowed letters inset into the brick’s surface. The letters in the middle of line 3 are damaged.

 Rome AD 123 (consular date) This brickstamp was part of a collection of brickstamps from Rome, Ostia, and Portus given to the Ashmolean by J.H. Parker, Keeper of Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum (1870-84), after a visit to Rome in the winter months of 1871/72. It is currently on display in the Rome Gallery. Photograph
Aproniano et Paetino consulibus Pomponi Vitalis ex praediis Anni Veri Quintanensibus

In the consulship of Apronianus and Paetinus. Of Pomponius Vitalis from the Quintanensian estate of Annius Verus.

The stamp records officinator Pomponius Vitalis, working on the estate owned by the distinguished senator M. Annius Verus, who was consul three times (AD 97, 121, 126) and urban prefect (PIR2 A 695), father-in-law of Antoninus Pius, and whose grandson became emperor as Marcus Aurelius (Setälä 1977: pp.56-58).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1872.1491 (7); CIL XV, 1 no.454.b29 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

Online: EDCS- 32301085 [accessed 26/03/15]

Setälä P. 1977 Private Domini in Roman Brick Stamps of the Empire. A Historical and Prosopographical Study of Landowners in the District of Rome Helsinki Academia Scientiarum Fennica