2008.71: Brick Stamp of L. Lurius Proculus

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2008.71

Title

Brick Stamp of L. Lurius Proculus

Classification

Brick Stamps

Work Type

brick stamp

Date

1st century CE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Latium

Period

Roman Imperial period, Early

Culture

Roman

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/175486

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Stamped

Dimensions

14.2 x 11.8 x 3.7 cm (5 9/16 x 4 5/8 x 1 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp and inscription: L [Lur]I PROCVLI

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Found by Mason Hammond at Ostia, February 1939.
Gift of Mason Hammond to McDaniel Collection, September 1959.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University

Accession Year

2008

Object Number

2008.71

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Orbicular stamp, broken away at the lower left. The text runs in a single curve around the outside, enclosing a central blank circle. The text reads, without points or separations between words, L[...]IPROCVLI ("(brick) of L. Lurius Proculus"). This is presumably the L. Lurius Proculus known from seven other stamp-types on bricks found within and around Rome, in contexts that point to a Domitianic date for these stamps.

Publication History

• John Bodel and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A checklist, American Academy in Rome (New York, 1997), p. 56.

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