Brickstamp, Ostia Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1530.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1530 AshLI 228 Coll. Ref: 46 Roman catalogue: 410

A fragmentary three-quarter circular stamp (0.085+). Brick: 0.105+ 0.11+ 0.026

There is one line of text around the edge of the stamp, and another line of letters across the centre of the stamp. There is a small interpunct. The letters AN are ligatured in VICCIAN (line 1) and AT in OCRATI (line 2). For another, fragmentary, example of the same stamp, see AN1872.1571.

 0.012-0.013 (outer, line 1), 0.01 (centre) Ostia Mid-first century AD (Dressel in 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 Viccianis Rutiliae Luci filiae Ocrati (uxoris)

From the Viccianan brickyards of Rutilia, daughter of Lucius, wife of Ocratius.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1530 (46); CIL XV.1 no.665,c6 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

Online: EDCS-34700325 [accessed 06/10/14]