Brickstamp, Tivoli Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1967.1316.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1967.1316 AshLI 281 Glos. no.370

A rectangular stamp (0.052 0.12), damaged on its right side, and rather worn. Brick: 0.172 0.145 0.025

There are two lines of letters, framed above and below by a palm branch, with an ivy leaf in front of the palm to the left. There are triangular interpuncts. It is an example of the brickstamp published as CIL XV, 1 no.999a.

 0.01 (line 1); 0.011 (line 2) Tivoli Late first century AD (Steinby 1974-75: p.50). According to the Ashmolean MS. Accession Register, this brickstamp was found at Tivoli in 1898. 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.65), and then transferred permanently on 16th November 1967 (Glos. no.370). Photograph Photograph Photograph
Fortunati Domitiorum Lucani et Tulli

Of Fortunatus, slave of Domitius Lucanus and Domitius Tullus.

This stamp records the name of the brick manufacturer, a slave who worked for the two brothers Cn. Domitius Lucanus (PIR2 D152) and Cn. Domitius Tullus (PIR2 D167). They had both been adopted by Cn. Domitius Afer, and operated together the property which they had jointly inherited (Setälä 1977: pp.35-36). The Domitii were the most prominent family in brick manufacturing during the first and second centuries AD (Helen 1975: p.100).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1967.1316

Helen T. 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 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