oculist's stamp

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Object Type: oculist's stamp
Museum number: 1928,0714.3
Description: Stone oculist's stamp of pale grey-green fine-grained stone, no inscribed on only one edge; two other sides appear to have been truncated, and the text on the final side deliberately erased, leaving illegible traces.
Cultures/periods: Romano-British
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Caistor-by-Norwich
Materials: stone
Dimensions: Length: 24.60 millimetres; Thickness: 5.80 millimetres; Width: 24.10 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: R I B / The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (2446.24) (previously II.1, 2409.27, p. 79); Jackson 2023 / Greek and Roman Medicine at the British Museum: the Instruments and Accoutrements of Ancient Medicine (3.135)
Location: On display (G49/dc4)
Acquisition name: Donated by: H R Hodgkinson
Acquisition notes: Found March 1927
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1928,0714.3

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