Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1967.1328.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1967.1328 AshLI 293

A rectangular brickstamp (0.04+ 0.095+), with hollowed letters on two lines. The stamp is damaged along its top edge and to the right, but can be identified as an example of CIL XV, 1 no.562.

Brick: 0.073+ 0.12+ 0.035

Hollowed letters on two lines.

0.015 (line 1); 0.016 (line 2) AD 134 (consular date) 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.33), and then transferred permanently on 16th November 1967 It is currently in store. Photograph Photograph

Serviano III consule ex figlinis Villi Aug Sulpicianis

In the third consulship of Servianus; from the Sulpician brickyards of Villius Aug(?).

The stamp names Villius Aug(?) (his full cognomen is not given) as owner of the Sulpician brickyards in AD 134. He seems to be related to the slightly earlier Villius Alexander, who was also linked to the same brickyards (Setälä 1977: p.202).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1967.1328

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