Brickstamp, Tivoli Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1967.1320.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1967.1320 AshLI 285 Glos. no. 372

An almost intact circular stamp (0.09), with worn lettering in places and slight damage on one section of the edge. There is a small orbiculus (0.009) occupying the width of the outer line.

Brick: 0.13+ 0.12+ 0.02

There are three lines of lettering around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles, and another line of lettering across the centre of the stamp. There are triangular interpuncts. Ligatures: line 2, NF; Line 3, AE, AP, NI. There is an image beneath the letters COS in the centre, which Dressel suggests in CIL might be a fish or shell.

0.009 (line 1); 0.008 (line 2), 0.009 (line 3), 0.01 (centre line) Tivoli AD 123 (consular date) According to the Ashmolean Accession Register, this stamp was found on the Colle di S. Stefano, Tivoli (cf. CIL XV,1 no.847). 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.29), and then transferred permanently on 16th November 1967 (Glos. no.372). It is currently in store Photograph Photograph
ex figlinis Quinti Asini Marcelli doliare opus fecit Gaius Nunnidius Fortunatus Quinto Articuleio Paetino et Aproniano consulibus

From the brickyards of Quintus Asinius Marcellus. Gaius Nunnidius Fortunatus manufactured the brick product. In the consulship of Quintus Articuleius Paetinus and Apronianus.

Q. Asinius Marcellus (PIR2 A 1236), of a high-ranking senatorial family, was the owner of brickyards during the Hadrianic period (Steinby 1974-75: p.66). For the inheritance of his brickyards, see AN1967.1321.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1967.1320

Steinby M. 1974-75 La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 84 25-132