Rome / Clay (unfired)

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1297
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Brick stamps
Materials: Clay (unfired)
Inscribed: yes
Artifact Obverse Inscription: Outer Inscription: [DE P]RAEDIS DOMINORUM; Inner: NOSTROR AUGG; De praedis (duorum) dominorum nostror(um) Aug(ustorum).
Full Artifact Description: Pinkish yellow brick. Nearly complete lunette stamp on small rectangular brick. Two line concentric inscription center contains helmeted protome of Minerva or Roma facing right, nex to spear. Middle lunette shape 100-180 A.D.; Outer Inscription: [DE P]RAEDIS DOMINORUM; Inner: NOSTROR AUGG
Subjects: Minerva or Roma
Verbatim Date: 180-211 AD?
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Rome
Countermark: no
Inscription Obverse Text: Outer Inscription: [DE P]RAEDIS DOMINORUM; Inner: NOSTROR AUGG; De praedis (duorum) dominorum nostror(um) Aug(ustorum).
Publication Title: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
Publication Year: 0000
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1297
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1297/0000_00_1297

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