roman brick new in collection

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Very cool, @galba68 ! Do you know roughly what period of Roman history? How thick is it?

 

4.5o cm..nearly 11 kg..

 

its from roman site, l belive 3 rd - 4 th century..

 

Dog?

 

l think so..and its big one..

 

How do they authenticate these of roman period ,from say the 13 or 14th century?

 

this is a 100% roman brick..on every roman site you can find broken bricks and pottery..but , very rare in one piece..and they can be in big size and with different stamps on it..

 

Holy cow!

That is wicked cool.

Erin

 

Love the paw prints! LOL!

 

Thats neat!

 

Very kool! I've seen one before with a dog paw print in it like yours. most likely a pet of the brick maker(s). nice find!

 

Cool catch to mix in with your coin collection. I've got an arrowhead and some rings, but no bricks!

 

How did you get it away from the site? Did the site Director approve of its removal (usually they don't unless the site has an unmonitored dump site)?

 

l been swap for some coins..its not goverment protected site..

 

"Not...protected?" Strange... May I ask, what country is/was this in? If I understood you, the site is not being excavated at present? Is it a "recognized"/registered site for ancient material?

 

under law in my country, if somebody find artefact on the field, let say, and is not area protected by goverment, its your free will if u like to keep, swap or sell to museum..l CANT go to protected area and do metal detecting or do illegal excavations..thats definitely NO-NO, because its ILLEGAL..me, personaly, have good relationship with museums, and in the past, l sold and gave them for free some coins, and l must say very rare artefacts, and l supplied them with informations about new sites where coins or artefacts come from..friend of mine, find this brick on non recognized or registered site for ancient, and museum is not inerested to buy anyway..l will be in big problem, if l try to take this brick out of country, without papers and stamp issued by officials for exporting..

 

i had a G+ bud in or around Jordan who found buku coins..i mean every other day or so he'd show us 20-60 coins that he'd found. But alas there wasn't a market where he was and he couldn't ship them out..

 

Oh I forgot, I've got a couple of pot sherds and an amulet from Hermopolis Magna (Egypt). This was a site with very long habitation from pre-Pharaonic through Ptolemaic and Roman periods. The town is now called El-Ashmunein. They came from near the temple of Thoth. The guard insisted I take them as a gift after he walked me around the site, and after I had paid him 100 pounds as baksheesh. Since he was carrying around an AK-47 I thought that it was a good idea to do what he said. I also sat down for awhile near the temple gateway and smoked a shisha (water pipe) with two policemen. It's an area that's off the beaten path for tourism, so they don't get too many visitors. There also were some very nice Greek inscriptions remaining near the center of the old city, carved in stone, and piles of mud-brick everywhere. The ancients wrote that the city had five and six story buildings back in early Roman times.

 

interesting post, ominus1..