Brickstamp, Portus Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1515.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1515 AshLI 212 Coll. Ref: 31 Roman catalogue: 395

A complete circular, orbicular stamp (0.092), with a large orbiculus (0.036) extending into the central section of the stamp. Brick: 0.11+ 0.113+ 0.035

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. In the centre is a pine cone. The letters in line 2 are rather worn.

 0.011 (outer, line 1); 0.009 (inner, line 2) Portus; many examples of bricks bearing this stamp found in southern part of palazzo imperiale (Lanciani 1868: p.175). AD c.134-155 (CIL; Thylander). 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 Photograph
opus doliare Claudi Quinquatralis et Livi Martialis ex praedis Domitiae Lucillae

Brick-product of Claudius Quinquatralis and Livius Martialis, from the estate of Domitia Lucilla.

OP DO CLO OLETI MART / ex PR DOM LVC (Lanciani 1868).

Landowner Domitia Lucilla Minor (PIR2 D183; Raepsaet-Charlier 1987: p.290 no.329) was mother of emperor Marcus Aurelius, and wife of M. Annius Verus (Setälä 1977: p.108-09) (cf. AN1872.1502). Her family, the Domitii, were prominent in brick manufacturing during the first and second centuries AD (Helen 1975: p.100). The stamps belong to an Antonine phase of alterations to the ‘palazzo imperiale’. See also AN1872.1502, 1872.1512, 1872.1515a, 1872.1559.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1515 (31); CIL XV, 1 no.1079, 6 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891); Thylander 1952: p.440, B387, 9.

Online: EDCS-36100209 [accessed 08/04/15]

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