Latin Stamped Brick

Item

Title

Latin Stamped Brick

Inventory Number

A0439

Date Acquired

1909

Description

Stamped brick from Italy (1st half of 2nd c CE). Originally square fragment (see Lind pl. 49J), now broken in half. Large circular stamp with small palm branch in the center; around it are two rows of quadrate letters.

EX • PR • LUCILL • VERI

MERCURI • TI • CL • QUINQUAT

(Brick) of Mercurius, slave of Tiberius Claudius Quinquntralis, from the estate (ex praedis) of Lucilla wife of Verus

Height

31 cm

Width

31 cm

Notes

Lind, p. 162: "The brick came from the brick works of Lucilla Minor, wife of Verus, and was made by Mercurius, slave of the manager Tiberius Claudius Quinquatralis, a name rather frequent on Roman bricks... Lucilla (known as Minor to distinguish her from an elder sister) was a member of a prominent family descended from Cn. Domitius Afer, who died ca. A.D. 59. She was born about A.D. 105 and died between A.D. 155-161 in the reign of Antoninus Pius (A.D. 138-161). She married Annius Verus not later than A.D. 120.")

cf. A0424

Bibliography

Lind, p. 162

Type

architecture