Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1564.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1564 AshLI 264 Coll. Ref: 6 Roman catalogue: 443 1876.48

A complete, but rather worn, circular orbicular stamp (0.10), with a small orbiculus (0.021). Brick: 0.205+ 0.215+ 0.034

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. In the centre is an image of a crescent.

 0.014-0.015 (outer, line 1), 0.011 (inner, line 2). Rome End of second century/early third century AD (Steinby 1974-75: p.75). 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 Photograph
Ex praedio Hortensi Pauli ni negotiatione Metili Procli

From the estate of Hortensius Paulinus, Metilius Proclus acting as wholesaler.

The senatorial landowner has been identified as M. Cassius Hortensius Paulinus, urban praetor (PIR2 H211; Setälä 1977: p129-30). See also AN1872.1519.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1564 (6) + 1876.48; CIL XV, 1 no.417, 13 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

Online: EDCS-31700216 [accessed 01/06/15]

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