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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.74
Title
Brick Stamp of Fortunatus, slave of Q. Oppius Iustus
Classification
Brick Stamps
Work Type
brick stamp
Date
126 CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Latium
Period
Roman Imperial period, Middle
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/175607

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Stamped
Dimensions
27 x 14.9 x 4.8 cm (10 5/8 x 5 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp and inscription: Q OPPI IUSTI FORTUNAT SER FEC / VERO III ET AMB / COS

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Found by Mason Hammond at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, in a hypocaust room in the southwest corner of a large peristyle above the large baths; May 1952.
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
2008.74
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Orbicular stamp, with Latin text: Q OPPI IVSTI FORTVNAT SER FEC / VERO III ET AMB / COS ("Fortunatus, slave of Quintus Oppius Iustus, made (this), in the third consulship of Verus and the first of Ambibulus"). The stamp marks the brick as a product of Fortunatus, the slave of the yard-master Quintus Oppius Iustus, in the year 126 CE. Oppius was a yard-master for both the elder and younger Domitiae Lucillae, mother and daughter. Domitia Lucilla the daughter married M. Annius Verus, son of the consul of 126 CE, and was mother of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, who by inheritance brought these brickyards into the imperial patrimony around 155 CE.

Publication History

  • John Bodel and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A checklist, American Academy in Rome (New York, 1997), p. 57.

Verification Level

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