Brickstamp, Portus Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1493.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1493 AshLI 190 Coll. Ref: 9 Roman catalogue: 373

A fragmentary circular, orbicular stamp (0.102+), with a large orbiculus (0.039) extending into the central section of the stamp.

Brick: 0.12+ 0.108+ 0.035

There are three lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles, and a further line across the centre of the stamp. The middle of the stamp is worn. There are triangular interpuncts. Ligature of ET in line 3.

 0.014 (line 1); 0.01 (line 2); 0.009 (line 3). Letters in line 4 are too abraded to measure. This is one of five examples of this stamp found at Portus, but its exact provenance is unknown. AD 126 (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 1871/2.1 It is currently in store. Photograph
Lucius Bruttidius Augustalis fecit opus doliare ex figlinis <expan><abbr>Caes</abbr><ex>aris</ex></expan> nostri Propinquo et Ambibulo consulibus

Lucius Bruttidius Augustalis made (this). Brick-product from the brickyards of our Caesar. In the consulship of Propinquus and Ambibulus.

Lucius Bruttidius Augustalis worked in the imperially-owned brickyards, the figlinae Oceanae Minores, possibly from the early Trajanic era onwards (Steinby 1974-75: p.70). His bricks have been found widely in Italy, North Africa, and Narbonensis (CIL XV.1 nos 373-79). For another example of the same stamp, see AN1872.1546.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1872.1493 (no.373); CIL XV.1 no. 375, 15 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891); Thylander 1952: p.447 B394.10.

Online: EDCS-31800438 [accessed 12/01/15]

Steinby M. 1974-75 La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 84 25-132 Thylander H. 1952 Inscriptions du port d’Ostie Lund Gleerup