Description:
White brick-stamp, broken to the right
(w:
0.065-0.052 x h:
0.035).
Text: Stamped in an irregularly shaped field.
Letters: Ligatured AE on line 1, PH and AE on line 2.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Apollonia: Unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
(scil. Property) of Q(uintus) Aemilius Philotas
Commentary
The cognomen is probably complete; it occurs locally so that the stamp may very well be that of a local manufacturer, but the possibility that the brick was an imported object cannot be excluded.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 63.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).