Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1548.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1548 (64) (no.428) AshLI 246 Coll. Ref: 64 Roman catalogue: 428

A circular orbicular brickstamp (0.093), damaged on one side, with a large orbiculus (0.041) extending into the central section of the stamp, which contains an image of a pine cone surrounded by six dots (leaves, according to CIL). Brick: 0.145+ 0.13+ 0.043

). There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. Its surface is partially abraded. There is one small triangular interpunct.

 0.01 (outer, line 1), 0.009 (inner, line 2) Rome AD c.118-125 (Steinby 1974-75: p.53, early Hadrianic). 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 Photograph
opups doliare Epagathus Claudi Quinoquatralis servus

Brick-product. Epagathus slave of Claudius Quinquatralis.

OPVP for OPVS; EPAGTHV for EPAGATHV QVINOATR for QVINQVATR

This stamp relates to brick-production for the Domitii, the most prominent family in brick manufacturing during the first and second centuries AD (Steinby 1974-75: p.53; Helen 1975: p.100). For another example of the same stamp, see AN1872.1547 (63).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1548 (64); CIL XV, 1 no.1075, b35 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891).

Online: EDCS-35900290 [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 Steinby M. 1974-75 La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 84 25-132