Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1967.1315.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1967.1315 AshLI 280

A complete circular, orbicular brickstamp (0.091), with a large orbiculus (0.032) extending into the central section of the stamp. Brick: 0.12+ 0.117+ 0.036

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. In the centre, within a circular frame, is an image of a wreath within which is a cross. There are small triangular interpuncts. It is only a little worn.

0.009 Rome AD 154 (consular date) According to the Ashmolean Accession Register, this stamp was found on the Esquiline Hill in Rome in 1899 (cf CIL XV,1 no.618,1). It was given to Gloucester City Museum in 1910 by Welbore St. Clair Baddeley, a well-known local antiquarian (information from David Rice of Gloucester Museum). It was first loaned to the Ashmolean in 1964 (Gloucester Loan no.26), and then transferred permanently on 16th November 1967. photograph photograph photograph
Ex praediis Lucillae Veri opus doliare Maioris servi Commodo et Laterano consulibus

From the estate of Lucilla wife of Verus, brick-product of Maior, a slave. In the consulship of Commodus and Lateranus.

Landowner Domitia Lucilla Minor (PIR2 D183; Raepsaet-Charlier 1987: p.290 no.329) was mother of emperor Marcus Aurelius, and wife of M. Annius Verus (Setälä 1977: p.108-09) (cf. AN1872.1512, 1872.1515, 1872.1515a). Her family, the Domitii, were prominent in brick manufacturing during the first and second centuries AD (Helen 1975: p.100) (compare also 1872.1502, 1872.1512, 1872.1513, 1872.1514, 1872.1515, 1872.1559). This stamp can be traced to the figlinae Terentianae, which began production in around AD 140 (Steinby 1974-75: p.93).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1967.1315; CIL XV, 1 no.618.

1975T. 1975 Organization of Roman Brick Production in the First and Second Centuries AD. An interpretation of Roman brick stamps Helsinki Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum 5 Raepsaet-CharlierM-Th. 1987 Prosopographie des femmes de l’ordre sénatorial (Ier-IIe siècles) Leuven Peeters SetäläP. 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 SteinbyM. 1974-75 La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 84 25-132