Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1569.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1569 (11) (no.448) AshLI 269 Coll. Ref: 11 Roman catalogue: 448

A damaged circular brickstamp (0.065+). Brick: 0. 0.08+ 0.105+ 0.02-0.023

One line of lettering runs around the outer edge, and the small letters CR also appear around the edge of the central circle. To one side of the centre is a palm-frond, and two other shapes are interpreted in CIL as possibly fish, but the rest of the central section is damaged and otherwise obscured by a label stuck on top. From other examples in CIL, it seems that the centre also contained what might be a cornucopia, and the head of an animal. There is a small triangular interpunct in line 1. The letters NT in line 1 are ligatured.

 0.014 (outer line), 0.006 (within inner circle) Rome 1st century AD (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 in store. Photograph Photograph
Marci Vinici Crescentis Crescentis ?

Of Marcus Vinicius Crescens. Of Crescens(?).

Dressel (in CIL) suggests that the repeated CR in the centre is an abbreviated form of the officinator’s name.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1872.1569 (11); CIL XV, 1 no.1527, 8 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

Online: EDCS-42300678 [accessed 02/06/15]