Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1526 Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1526 AshLI 224 Coll. Ref: 42 Roman catalogue: 406

A circular orbicular stamp (0.10), very worn and damaged on one side, with a small orbiculus (0.024). Brick: 0.14+ 0.13+ 0.036

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. In the centre is the figure of a Victory, now only faintly visible. There are triangular interpuncts. The top part only of R remains; the letters AVG are very worn. The E in TE is blocked out solidly, as is the E in FEL; the letters RE are very worn, as is the final S. It has been mislabelled on the front as no.43.

 0.01-0.011 Rome AD 212-217 (Steinby 1974-75: p.94) 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
opus doliare ex praediis Augusti nostri figlinis Terentianis Aeli Felicis

Clay-product from the estate of our emperor, from the Terentian brickyards. Of Aelius Felix.

Bricks from the Terentian brickyards began to be produced in the 140s, but this stamp belongs to a later phase of exploitation of the clay by the emperor Caracalla (Steinby 1974-74: pp.93-94).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1526 (42); CIL XV.1 no.624,11 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891).

Online: EDCS-32801719 [accessed 06/10/14]

Steinby M. 1974-75 La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 84 25-132