Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1551.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1551 (67) (no.431) AshLI 249 Coll. Ref: 67 Roman catalogue: 431

A circular brickstamp (0.075), with a large orbiculus (0.045) added on to it. Brick: 0.14+ 0.086+ 0.03

There is one line of text around the edge of the stamp. In the centre is a cross. There is a triangular interpunct. The letters DI are ligatured.

 0.013 Rome Early second 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
Titus Helvius Dio

Titus Helvius Dio.

It is possible that Dio is an abbreviated cognomen.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1872.1551 (67); CIL XV.1 no. 1177 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891).