Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1521.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1521 AshLI 219 Coll. Ref: 37 Roman catalogue: 401

A complete circular, orbicular stamp (0.098), with a large orbiculus (0.036) extending into the central section of the stamp. Brick: 0.152+ 0.18+ 0.041

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. In the centre is an image of a palm branch. Some letters in line 1 are rather worn. In line 1 N has a bar above.

0.011 (outer, line 1); 0.01 (inner, line 2). Rome Late Hadrianic (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
doliare praediorum Caesaris nostri figlinarum Marcianarum Anicetiani

Clay product from the estate of our Caesar from the Marcian brickyards, of Anicetianus.

The Marcian brickyards were located in the vicinity of other brickyards (Caepionian, Subortan, Ocian) in the territory of Ameria on the left bank of the River Tiber (Champlin 1983: p.258), and appears to have been exploited over a particularly long period, from the mid-first century AD down into the fourth century.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1521 (37); CIL XV,1 no.322, 8 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

EDCS-31700727 [accessed 05/05/15]

Champlin E. 1983 Figlinae Marcianae Athenaeum 61 257-64