Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1563.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1563 AshLI 263 Coll. Ref: 5 Roman catalogue: 442

A virtually complete, but very worn, circular orbicular brickstamp (0.098), with a small orbiculus. Brick: 0.18+ 0.145+ 0.039

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. Other examples of the stamp have a figure of the Sun in the centre, but this example is too worn for this to be identifiable. Likewise the ligatures are not easily visible.

 0.01 (outer, line 1), 0.009 (inner, line 2). Rome AD 205-211 (Steinby 1974-75: p.40). 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 in store. Photograph
opus doliare ex praedis Auggustorum nnostrorum figlinas novas Fontei Procli et Igenuae

Clay-product from the estate of our emperors, new brickyards, of Fonteius Proclus and of Ingenua.

The two officinatores here, working for Septimius Severus and his sons, are Fonteius Proclus and Sabinia Ingenua, the latter of whom continued to manufacture bricks under Caracalla (Steinby 1974-75: p.40).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1563 (5); CIL XV, 1 no.205, 15 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

Online:EDCS-30800152 [accessed 01/06/15]

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