Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1545.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1545 (61) (no.425) AshLI 243 Coll. Ref: 61 Roman catalogue: 425

A fragmentary circular brickstamp (0.072+). Brick: 0.09+ 0.079+ 0.035. It is mislabelled as no.72.

There is one line of text around the edge of the stamp, and possibly an ivy-leaf in the centre. There are triangular interpuncts. It can be reconstructed from other examples of the same stamp, which also have palm branches at the start and end of the text.

 0.014 Rome AD 79-97 (other stamps of Primigenius are ‘late Domitianic’ – Steinby 1974-75: p.50). 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
Primigenius duorum Domitiorum

Primigenius (slave) of the two Domitii.

This stamp records the name of the brick manufacturer, a slave who worked for the two brothers Cn. Domitius Lucanus (PIR2 D152) and Cn. Domitius Tullus (PIR2 D167). They had both been adopted by Cn. Domitius Afer, and operated together the property which they had jointly inherited (Setälä 1977: pp.35-36). The Domitii were the most prominent family in brick manufacturing during the first and second centuries AD (Helen 1975: p.100).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1872.1545 (61); CIL XV.1 no.1000, d28 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891).

Online: EDCS-35400725 [accessed 29/05/15]

1975 T. 1975 Organization of Roman Brick Production in the First and Second Centuries AD. An interpretation of Roman brick stamps Helsinki Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum 5 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 Steinby M. 1974-75 La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 84 25-132