Brickstamp, Rome, via Latina Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1572.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1572 AshLI 272 Coll. Ref: 14 Roman catalogue: 451

The bottom part of a fragmentary rectangular stamp (0.025+ 0.13+). Brick: 0.155+ 0.15+ 0.04

There are two lines of text, damaged above, and to left and right. Only the bottom stems of letters remain on line 1. To the right of the second line of text is the image of a wild boar galloping to the right. There are triangular interpuncts. The text can be restored from other examples of the same stamp.

line 2: 0.01-0.012 Via Latina, Rome. AD 134 (consular date). 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 recorded in the Accessions Register as coming from the via Latina. It is currently in store. Photograph Photograph
ex figlinis Arri Antonini Caeponiana Serviano III et Varo consulibus

From the brickyards of Arrius Antoninus. Caepionian (brick-product). In the consulship of Servianus for the 3rd time and Varus.

Arrius Antoninus is the future emperor Antoninus Pius (PIR2 A1513).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1872.1572 (14); CIL XV.1 no.92,a4 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

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