Ulpia Marciana
Ulpia Marciana (* before 50; † 29 August 112 ) was the older sister of the Roman emperor Trajan .
Marciana was born before 50 AD as the daughter of the Roman senator Marcus Ulpius Traianus . Her place of birth is unknown. She was married to Gaius Salonius Matidius Patriunus . Their only child was their daughter Salonia Matidia . After the death of her husband in 78, she no longer married.
After 105, Trajan awarded her the title Augusta . She was the first sister of a Roman emperor to receive this title. At first Marciana refused to accept the title. However, after her sister-in-law, the Empress Pompeia Plotina , insisted, she agreed. It then became part of the official imperial iconography . A statue of her was erected together with those of Trajan and Plotina on the Arch of Trajan in Ancona .
On the day of her death, August 29, 112 AD, she was divinized . A temple was built in Rome in her honor. Trajan also named two cities after her, Marcianopolis and Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi .
literature
- Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum : Marciana. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 853 f.
- Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum: The family of the 'adoptive emperors' from Traian to Commodus . In: Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum (Hrsg.): Die Kaiserinnen Roms. From Livia to Theodora . CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49513-3 , p. 187-264, especially pp. 192-202 .
- Hildegard Temporini: The women at Trajan's court. A contribution to the position of the Augustae in the Principate . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-082156-7 , p. 184–261 (reprint of the Berlin et al. 1979 edition).
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| SURNAME | Marciana, Ulpia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | older sister of the Roman emperor Trajan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 50 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th August 112 |