Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1518.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1518 AshLI 216 Coll. Ref: 34 Roman catalogue: 398

A complete circular, orbicular stamp (0.095), with a large orbiculus (0.033). Brick: 0.14+ 0.145+ 0.037

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. There is a ligature in line 1, and some interpuncts. Much of the surface is very worn, especially in the centre, but the vast majority of the text can be restored on the basis of other stamps

 0.012 (outer, line 1); 0.011 (inner, line 2). Rome AD 140 (CIL). 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 Photograph
ex figlinis Flaviae Proculae opus doliare Fulviae Ianuariae Imperatore Antonino et Vero consulibus

From the brickyards of Flavia Proc(u)la, brick-product of Fulvia Ianuaria, in the consulship of emperors Antoninus and Verus.

the surface is worn away after O D – Dessau suggests restoring [FIG(LINVM)] IANVARIA(E), whereas Waldstein suggested [EX I]ANVARIA. Steinby (pers. comm.) now publishes as FVL IANVARIA.

Stamps of Flavia Procula are dated to the period AD 123-140 (Setälä 1977: p.119). Her identity is uncertain, but she may have been the daughter of the consul Flavius Aper (consul in AD 130) (Raepsaet-Charlier 1987: p.328 no.377).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1518 (34); CIL XV, 1 no.1159 a1 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891).

Online: EDCS-36100146 [accessed 27/04/15]

Raepsaet-CharlierM-Th. 1987 Prosopographie des femmes de l’ordre sénatorial (Ier-IIe siècles) Leuven Peeters 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