Brickstamp, Portus Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1540.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1540 (56) (no.420) AshLI 238 Coll. Ref: 56 Roman catalogue: 420

Fragment of a circular brickstamp (0.105+). Brick: 0.055+ 0.129+ 0.039

There is one line of text around the edge of the stamp, and in the centre is the bottom part of a pine-cone, flanked by a palm-branch to its left (the palm-branch to the right is missing through damage). The stamp has been mislabelled as no.68. There is a ligature of the letters TI.

0.013 Portus AD c.120 (Dressel in CIL) According to Dressel, it was found at Portus in the structure known at that time as the xenodochium (guest-house) of Pammachius, built by a senator at the end of the 4th century for Christian pilgrims visiting Rome, now known as the ‘Christian basilica’ (cf. Lanciani 1870: p.25; Pavolini 2006: p.290). 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
Nepos Cnaei Domiti Trophimi (servus)

Nepos, slave of Gnaeus Domitius Trophimus.

NIEPOS (Dressel in CIL; Thylander)

Cn. Domitius Trophimus was himself a freedman, manumitted in the late Trajanic period (Steinby 1974-75: p.57).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1540 (56); Descemet 1880: p.42 no.136; CIL XV.1 no.1118, b11 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891); Thylander 1952: p.441 B388.4

Online: EDCS-36100213 [accessed 22/05/15]

Descemet M. Ch. 1880 Inscriptions doliaires latines. Marques de briques relatives à une partie de la gens Domitia Paris Ernest Thorin Lanciani R. 1870 II. Scavi. Recenti scoperte nelle vicinanze di Roma. Porto Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica 18-25 Pavolini C. 2006 Ostia Rome Laterza Steinby M. 1974-75 La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 84 25-132 Thylander H. 1952 Inscriptions du port d’Ostie Lund Gleerup