Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1533.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1533 AshLI 231 Coll. Ref: 49 Roman catalogue: 413

A complete circular orbicular brickstamp (0.09), with a large orbiculus (0.036) extending into the central section of the stamp. Brick: 0.16 0.145 0.04

There are three lines of letters (including in the central circle), running in concentric circles. There is a leaf-frond at the end of line 1. Interpuncts are fairly indistinct.

 0.011 (line 1); 0.009 (line2); 0.008 (line 3). Rome Hadrianic (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 Photograph
Luci Luri Crescentis ex ficglinis Lusiani Caesaris nostri

Of Lucius Lurius Crescens from the Lusian brickyards of our Caesar.

FICLINIS for FIGLINIS

The Lusian brickyards may originally have belonged to Lusius Quietus (PIR2 L439), a consular who was killed at the start of Hadrian’s reign in 118. His property would then have passed to the emperor: accordingly, ‘our Caesar’ here refers to Hadrian (Steinby 1974-75: p.59).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1533 (49); CIL XV.1 no.280 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

Online: EDCS-31600402 [accessed 12/05/15]

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