Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1536 Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1536(52) no.416 AshLI 234 Coll. Ref: 52 Roman catalogue: 416

A circular orbicular stamp (0.096), almost intact but quite worn, with a large orbiculus (0.096) extending into the central section of the stamp. Brick: 0.145+ 0.168+ 0.035

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. There is an image of a bird (possibly a goose, according to Dressel in CIL) in the centre. There are triangular interpuncts, and a line above the letter N to mark the abbreviation n(ostri).

 0.011 Rome Antonine (Setälä 1977: p.105). This brickstamp is 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 figlinum doliare ex praedis Caesaris nostri officina Cai Calpetani Pannychi

Clay-product from the estate of our Caesar. Production unit of Gaius Calpetanus Pannychus.

C. Calpetanus Pannychus may have been the freedman of another officinator, C. Calpetanus Favor (Setälä 1977: p.105), who worked at the Marcian brickyards during the Trajanic period (Bodel 1983: p.46).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1872.1536 (52); CIL XV.1 no.746, 6 (impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

Online: EDCS-34500322 [accessed 20/05/15]

Bodel J. 1983 Roman brick stamps in the Kelsey Museum Ann Arbor University of Michian Press 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