Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1529.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1529 AshLI 227 Coll. Ref: 45 Roman catalogue: 409

A circular orbicular stamp (0.096), slightly damaged on one side, with a large orbiculus (0.03+) extending into the central section of the stamp. Brick: 0.134+ 0.149+ 0.03

There is one line of text around the edge of the stamp, and in the centre is a pine cone flanked on either side by a branch. There are triangular interpuncts.

 0.015-0.016 Rome AD 123-139 (Dressel, in CIL, by comparison with dated stamps from the same estate) 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 praedis Quinti Servili Pudentis a Lanio Vindice

From the estate of Quintus Servilius Pudens, by Lanius Vindex.

The latter part of the stamp can be restored as either a Lani(o) Vin(dice), or A(uli) Lani Vin(dicis)

Other stamps relating to the estate of Q. Servilius Pudens (PIR2 S594) are known from AD 123-25, 127-31, and 139. He was a friend of Pliny the Younger, legate in Bithynia in AD 111 (Setälä 1977: pp.183-85). See also AN1872.1500.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1529 (45); CIL XV, 1 no.1441, 2 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891).

Online: EDCS-42300759 [accessed 12/05/15]

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