1. Home
  2. Collections
  3. Search the Collection
  4. Stamped Brick Fragment

Stamped Brick Fragment

1921.01.0004

Thumbnail of Stamped Brick Fragment (1921.01.0004)

Detailed Images

Basic Information

Artifact Identification Stamped Brick Fragment   (1921.01.0004)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Built Environment Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Building Components
    3. :
  3. Construction Materials
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Early - Middle Roman Empire
Date 150 CE
Culture Roman
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Depth) 4.3 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 12.9 cm
Dimension 3 (N/A) N/A
Weight 805 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Stone
Manufacturing Processes N/A

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Adam, Jean-Pierre. Translated by Anthony Mathews. Roman Building: Materials and Techniques. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1994.

Bloch, Herbert. "Consules Suffecti on Roman Brick Stamps." Classical Philology, 39:4 (1944). Pp. 254-255.

Bloch, Herbert. "The Serapeum of Ostia and the Brick-Stamps of 123 A.D. A New Landmark in the HIstory of Roman Architecture." American Journal of Archaeology, 63:3 (1959). Pp. 225-240.

Bodel, John P. Roman Brick Stamps in the Kelsey Museum. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1983.

Grace, Virginia. "The Die Used for Amphora Stamps." Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 4:3 (1935). pp. 421-429.

Helen, Tapio. "Organization of Roman Brick Production in the First and Second Centuries A.D.: An Interpreation of Roman Brick Stamps." Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 9:1 (1975).

Lancaster, Lynne. "The Date of Trajan's Markets: An Assessment in the Light of Some Unpublished Brick Stamps." Papers of the British School at Rome, 63 (1995). Pp. 25-44.

Mark, Robert. "Reinterpreting Ancient Roman Structure." American Scientist, 75:2 (1987). Pp. 2, 142-150.

Opper, Thorsten. Hadrian: Empire and Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Setala, Paivi. "Private Domini in Roman Brick Stamps of the Empire: A Historical and Prosopographical Study of Landowners in the District of Rome." Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 9:2 (1977).

See unpublished paper by Arampapaslis, Serota, and Wells, 2012P.0067

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Mary L. Trowbridge Collection
Reproduction no

Contact

All information about our collection is constantly reviewed and updated. Please contact Dery Martínez-Bonilla, Registrar, if there is any information you are looking for that isn't currently online.