Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1542.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1542 (58) (no.422) AshLI 240 Coll. Ref: 58 Roman catalogue: 422 Coll. Ref: 62 in error

A circular orbicular brickstamp (0.097), with large orbiculus (0.055), damaged on one side. Brick: 0.115+ 0.135+ 0.049. It is mislabelled as no.63.

There is one line of text around the edge of the stamp.

 0.013-0.014 Rome Early 2nd 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
Cai CornelI Echionis

Of Gaius Cornelius Echio(?).

The cognomen of this individual is uncertain, since this is the only stamp of its kind known so far.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1542 (58); CIL XV.1 no.947 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891).

Online: EDCS-35400482 [accessed 22/05/15]