Dryantilla

Sulpicia Dryantilla (* approx. 210; † after 260) was the wife of the Roman usurper Regalianus in AD 260.

Antoninian dryantillas

Dryantilla is only known for its coins, it was not mentioned in literary sources. Nevertheless, epigraphic evidence allows a reconstruction of their membership of the imperial elite through their descent from a wealthy and respected senatorial family from Lycia , which had extensive ramifications across the entire empire.

An extensive and complex genealogical inscription on a heroon in the Lycian Oinoanda names Gaius Sulpicius Iustus , proconsul of Lycia et Pamphylia in Severan times, as well as his brother Gaius Sulpicius Pollio , legate of Iustus in the province and brother of Arval . They were the sons of a Claudia Dryantilla and a Sulpicius Pollio , and one of the two men is to be regarded as the father of Dryantilla, who was probably born around 210 and who - as was so often the case - will have been named after her grandmother. Dryantilla's aunt Sulpicia Agrippina, sister of Sulpicii Iustus and Pollio, was married to a consul of 193, Quintus Pompeius Sosius Falco .

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• Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes 3, 500 ( online ).
• AE 1964, 179

literature

• G. Dembski, H. Winter, B. Woytek: Regalianus and Dryantilla. Historical background, numismatic evidence, research history (Moneta Imperii Romani 43 - revision) . In: M. Alram, F. Schmidt-Dick (eds.): Numismata Carnuntina. Research and material . Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7001-3821-1 , pp. 523-596 (The coins found in the Roman period in Austria. Section III: Lower Austria. Volume 2: The ancient coins found in the Museum Carnuntinum).
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR²) S 1028
• M. Schmidt-Neke: Reflections on the coinage for Roman empresses: the case of Dryantilla In: A. Ramaj (Ed.): Poeta nascitur, historicus fit - ad honorem Zef Mirdita . St. Gallen, Zagreb 2013. ISBN 978-3-9524201-0-2 , pp. 71–84.