Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1576.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1576 AshLI 276 Coll. Ref:18 Roman catalogue: 455 1876.57

Part of a rectangular stamp (0.035 0.08+). Brick: 0.13+ 0.10+ 0.035

The text is stamped on two lines in hollowed letters inset into the brick’s surface, damaged to the left and worn away to the right. The numeral III is indicated by variation in letter height. See also AN1872.1574-1575 for further examples of the same stamp.

 0.015 (line 1); 0.018 (line 2) 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 currently in store. Photograph
ServianoIII consule ex figlinis Villi Aug Sulpicianis

In the third consulship of Servianus, from the Sulpician brickyards of Villius Aug(?).

Villius Aug(?) is named in this stamp as the owner of the brickyards, the figlinae Sulpicianae, perhaps to be identified as heir of Villius Alexander, an earlier owner of the same brickyards (Setälä 1977: p.202).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1872.1576(18) + 1876.57; CIL XV.1 no.562,29 (from an impression sent by Waldstein) (Dressel 1891)

Online: EDCS-32802469 [accessed 04/06/15]

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