Domitia Calvina

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Domitia Calvina was a Roman noblewoman in the 1st century AD

It is known from three grave inscriptions of female freedmen found in Rome. In one of them it appears presumably as "Domitia Calvin (a) Bibuli f (ilia)", thus "Domitia Calvina, daughter of Bibulus" (the reading of this inscription is not entirely certain, however). From this form of the name it can be concluded that her father was called Bibulus; mostly he is identified with Lucius Calpurnius Bibulus, the governor of Syria under Mark Antony . Her mother, in turn, seems to have been called Domitia Calvina and to have been the daughter of a Calvinus. The father of this older Domitia Calvina was Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus , consul in 53 BC. BC and 40 BC And followers of Caesar and Augustus , assumed.

The Roman noblewoman Iunia Calvina , daughter of Marcus Iunius Silanus Torquatus (consul in 19) and Aemilia Lepida , also carries the cognomen Calvina, which was not common in the families of her parents. Therefore, Theodor Mommsen suspected that Domitia Calvina was her grandmother, the mother of Marcus Iunius Silanus Torquatus. Of his father, the husband of Domitia Calvina, only the name is known, he was also called Marcus Iunius Silanus.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIL VI, 16988 ; CIL VI, 16989 , CIL VI, 16990 .
  2. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani. 2nd edition, Volume 3, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1943, p. 56 (entry D 173).
  3. ↑ On this Conrad Cichorius : Calpurnius 27. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, column 1367 f.
  4. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Domitius 93. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 1510.
  5. ↑ Ursula Vogel-Weidemann : The governors of Africa and Asia in the years 14–68 AD. An investigation into the relationship between Princeps and Senate (= Antiquitas . Series 1, Volume 31). Habelt, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7749-1412-5 , p. 107.
  6. ^ Theodor Mommsen : Observationes epigraphicae II: De Iuniis Silanis. In: Ephemeris epigraphica. Volume 1, 1872, pp. 57-67, here p. 64 ( online ). Reprinted in: Theodor Mommsen: Gesammelte Schriften. Volume 8: Epigraphic and Numismatic Writings. Part 1, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1913, pp. 191–205, here p. 200.
personal data
SURNAME Domitia Calvina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calvina, Domitia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC BC or 1st century