Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1559.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1559 AshLI 259 Coll. Ref: 1 Roman catalogue: 439

A circular orbicular brickstamp on a complete brick (bipedalis).

Dimensions

The brick is not currently accessible, but according to the MS Accessions Register, its dimensions are two foot square (roughly 61 cm2) and 2 inches (= roughly 5cm) thick.

According to CIL, there is a ligature in line 2.

 Early Hadrianic (Steinby 1974-75: p.34); AD c.123 (Dressel in CIL). This brickstamp was part of a second batch of brickstamps from Rome, Ostia, and Portus given to the Ashmolean by J.H. Parker, Keeper of Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum (1870-84). It is currently inaccessible.
opus doliare de figlinis Domitiae Lucillae fecit Augustalis Luci Muna ti Crescentis

Clay-product from the brickyards of Domitia Lucilla. August(alis), slave of Lucius Munatius Crescens, produced it.

The brickyards may be identified as the figlinae Caninianae, belonging to estate owner Domitia Lucilla Minor (PIR2 D183; Raepsaet-Charlier 1987: p.290 no.329), who was mother of emperor Marcus Aurelius, and wife of M. Annius Verus (Setälä 1977: p.108-09) (cf. AN1872.1512, 1872.1515, 1872.1515a). Her family, the Domitii, were prominent in brick manufacturing during the first and second centuries AD (Helen 1975: p.100). L. Munatius Crescens was a freedman, who appears in other stamps as slave of Faustus (Steinby 1974-75: p.34).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1559 (1); CIL XV.1 no. 123, 15 (no.439a) (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

Online: EDCS-30400460 [accessed 10/06/15]

Raepsaet-CharlierM-Th. 1987 Prosopographie des femmes de l’ordre sénatorial (Ier-IIe siècles) Leuven Peeters 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