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Brick Stamp of Fortunatus, slave of Q. Oppius Iustus
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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
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.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Brick Stamp of Fortunatus, slave of Q. Oppius Iustus
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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.
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