Brickstamp Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1967.1326.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1967.1326 AshLI 291 Glos. no. 36

Fragment of a circular stamp (0.065+), damaged on all sides, with a large orbiculus (0.025+).

Brick: 0.06+ 0.07+ 0.025

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles. In the centre, is the lower part of an animal (a dog, as shown from other examples of the same stamp: CIL XV, 1 no.211). Only the tops of the letters INA at the end of line 1 are visible.

0.011 (outer line); 0.014 (inner line). AD 147-175 (Dressel in CIL) No provenance is recorded. 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.36), and then transferred permanently on 16th November 1967. It is currently in store. Photograph
opus doliare ex praedis Faustinae Augustae nostrae ex figlinis Faunianis Iuli Prisci

Brick-product from the estate of Faustina our Augusta from the Faunian brickyards of Iulius Priscus.

The abbreviation in line 1-2 could be expanded as Aug(usti) n(ostri) rather than Aug(ustae) n(ostrae).

The stamp can be identified with those produced from the estate of Faustina the Younger (Dressel), wife of Marcus Aurelius (PIR2 A716; Raepsaet-Charlier 1987: p.80 no.63), on analogy with other, more complete, examples of the same stamp (CIL XV,1 no.211). The name of the brickyards could be Faunian or Favonian, according to Dressel (Steinby 1974-75: p.41 n.4).

Raepsaet-CharlierM-Th. 1987 Prosopographie des femmes de l’ordre sénatorial (Ier-IIe siècles) Leuven Peeters Steinby M. 1974-75 La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 84 25-132