Brickstamp, Portus Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1510.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1510 AshLI 207 Coll. Ref: 26 Roman catalogue: 390

A complete circular, orbicular brickstamp (0.085), on a fragmentary brick (0.128+ 0.128+ 0.023+), with a large orbiculus (c.0.03) extending into the central section of the stamp.

There is one line of text around the edge of the stamp, and the centre remains blank. The letters are worn away from the start of the stamp. There are some interpuncts. It has been mislabelled as no.25 on the front, and on the rear as both no.25 and no.26.

 0.013 According to Lanciani (1868: p.174), it was found in the ‘palazzo imperiale’/ ‘imperial palace’ at Portus (cf. Thylander 1952: p.435 B386.7). AD c.117-123 (Bloch 1938: p.101 no.17; Steinby 1974-75: p.81). This brickstamp is 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. It is currently in store. Photograph Photograph
Plotinae Augustae Quintianae figlinae

Of Plotina Augusta, Quintian brickyards.

Bloch (1938: p.102) argues that during the final years of his reign, Trajan himself owned the brickyards, the figlinae Quintianae, and that it was only after his death that they were inherited by his wife Plotina. For other brickstamps bearing Plotina’s name, see AN1872.1490, 1872.1509.

Lanciani (1868) p.174; Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1872.1510(26); CIL XV, 1 no.441b8 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891).

Online: EDCS-32200925 [accessed 01/04/15]

Bloch H. 1938 I bolli laterizi e la storia edilizia romana Rome C. Colombo Lanciani R. 1868 Ricerche topografiche sulla città di Porto Annali dell’ Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica 40 144-95 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