Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1546.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1546 AshLI 244 Coll. Ref: 62 Roman catalogue: 426

A very fragmentary brick (0.102+ 0.062+ 0.032-0.035), with remains of a circular stamp (0.084+).

preserving part of two concentric circles containing lines of text running around the outer edge.

0.013 on outer line; 0.01 on inner line Rome AD 126 (consular date). 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
Lucius Bruttidius Augustalis fecit opus doliare ex figlinis Caesaris nostri Propinquo et Ambibulo consulibus

Lucius Bruttidius Augustalis made (this). Clay-product from the brickyards of our Caesar. In the consulship of Propinquus and Ambibulus.

Lucius Bruttidius Augustalis worked in the imperially-owned brickyards, the figlinae Oceanae Minores. His bricks have been found widely in Italy, North Africa, and Narbonensis (CIL XV.1 nos 373-79). For another example of the same stamp, see AN1872.1493.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1546 (62); CIL XV.1 no.375, 28 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891).

Online: EDCS-31800456 [accessed 15/09/14]