Bread stamp depicting Romulus and Remus suckling at the she-wolf (1st century)
A signaculum is a general Latin term for a seal or sign produced by a stamp or signet ring,[1] used in modern scholarship in particular reference to Roman lead pipe inscriptions, brick stamps, bread stamps,[2] and the lead "dog tag" of Roman soldiers.
^Oxford Latin Dictionary, s.v. signaculum, p. 1757.
^Annick Payne, "Bread Matters: Of Loaves and Stamps," Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics 130 (2017), pp. 73-89.
A signaculum is a general Latin term for a seal or sign produced by a stamp or signet ring, used in modern scholarship in particular reference to Roman...
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