Brickstamp, Portus Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1516.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1516 AshLI 214 Coll. Ref: 32 Roman catalogue: 396

A complete circular, orbicular stamp (0.085), with a large orbiculus (0.03) extending into the central section of the stamp. Brick: 0.125+ 0.12+ 0.025+

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. In the centre is a seven-point star surrounded by what might be rays (or perhaps a flower, according to Lanciani 1868: p.175). There are prominent triangular interpuncts, which go beyond word-separation.

0.012-0.014 (outer, line 1); 0.01-0.011 (inner line). The stamp belongs to an Antonine phase of alterations to the ‘palazzo imperiale’ (Lanciani 1868: p.175) at Portus. AD c.123-27 (CIL; Thylander). 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. It is currently in store. Photograph
Titi Rausi Pamphili ex figlinis Arriae Fadillae Cae pionianis

Of Titus Rausius Pamphilus, from the Caepionian brickyards of Arria Fadilla.

Landowner Arria Fadilla (PIR2 A1119; Raepsaet-Charlier 1987: p.115 no.99) was mother of emperor Antoninus Pius. All of her stamps, some of which include consular dates for AD 123, 124 and 127, relate to the Caepionian brickyards (figlinae Caepionianae). She had first taken over the part of these brickyards belonging to Plotia Isaurica, for whom Titus Rausius Pamphilus had also acted as officinator, and later the part which had belonged to T. Tutinius Sentius Satrianus (see AN 1872.1496). She therefore owned the whole of the Caepoonian brickyards, which were eventually divided between her son (future emperor Antoninus Pius) and daughter (Helen 1975: p.80; Setälä 1977: pp.62-64).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1516 (32); CIL XV.1 no.85, 1 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891); Lanciani 1868: p.175; Bloch 1938: p.101 no.15; Thylander 1952: p.434 B386.4

Online: EDCS-13600300 [accessed 27/04/15]

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