Brickstamp Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1967.1327.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1967.1327 AshLI 292

A circular stamp (0.075+), with a large orbiculus (0.035), damaged around most of its outer edge.

Brick: 0.092+ 0.10+ 0.047

The two lines of lettering run around the orbiculus in a three-quarters circle. There is an interpunct in line 1 and a palm branch at the end of line 2. The stamp can be identified on analogy with other examples published as CIL XV, 1 no.1102a.

 0.011-0.012 (inner, line 1); 0.011 (outer, line 2). Late first century AD, AD c.80-100 (Dressel in CIL; Steinby 1974-75: p.56) 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 transferred permanently to the Ashmolean from Gloucester City Museum on 16th November 1967. It is currently in store. Photograph
Cnai Domiti Clementis

Of Gnaeus Domitius Clemens

This stamp relates to brick-production for the Domitii, the most prominent family in brick manufacturing during the first and second centuries AD (Steinby 1974-75: p.53; Helen 1975: p.100). This stamp was produced by one of their freedman officinatores, Cn. Domitius Clemens.

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