The Wonderful World of Roman Stamped Bricks: Texts, Objects, People

During the first and second centuries CE, the stamps on bricks and roof tiles for the city of Rome shown an unprecedented complexity, including, variously, the names of the landowner, the production area, the brick producer, occasionally the actual workman, and in some cases the consuls, allowing the stamps to be precisely dated. Once studied almost entirely as texts for their prosopographical content and as tools for dating construction, recent focus on stamps as objects and in context has thrown new light on the economic activity of the Roman elite, on patterns of supply, and on social networks and mobility.

We have reserved a lunch table in Hall for Cluster members to meet with our speaker Janet DeLaine, followed by her talk in the Florey Room at 1:15, catered with cake and tea/coffee (all welcome).