Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1967.1317.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1967.1317 AshLI 282 Glos. no.377

A complete orbicular brickstamp, with a large orbiculus (0.043) extending into the central section of the stamp (0.094). Brick: 0.145+ 0.155+ 0.02

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp (0.094), running in concentric circles, with the additional word COS stamped across the central circular section, which is otherwise blank. The letters AT are ligatured in STAT (line 1). It is in a good condition. It is an example of the brickstamp published as CIL XV, 1 no.1451.

 outer line, 0.011-0.013; inner line, 0.012-0.013; central line 0.01-0.011. Sette Bassi villa, in Rome. AD 123 (consular date) According to the Ashmolean Accession Register, this stamp was found at Sette Bassi villa, in Rome, on 2nd Feb. 1899. 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.30), and then transferred permanently on 16th November 1967 (Glos. no.377). Photograph
ex praedis Statiili Severi Titi Camidieni? Narcissi Paetino et Aproniano consulibus

From the estate of Statilius Severus, (product) of Titus Cam(idienus?) Narcissus. In the consulship of Paetinus and Apronianus.

The owner of these brickyards, T. Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus, was suffect consul in AD 115 (PIR2 S836) (Setälä 1977: p.186).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1967.1317

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