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Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata

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Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata also known as Cornelia Volusia Torquata Licinia[1] was a noble Roman woman who lived in the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century and first half of the 2nd century.

Family background and early life

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Torquata's ancestry is based on inference. According to Rudolf Hanslik, she is the granddaughter of Volusia Torquata and a Marcus Licinius; their surmised son, also named Marcus Licinius, who was also pontifex, was Torquata's father. [2] The name element "Torquata" comes from her great-grandmother Torquata, the wife of Quintus Volusius Saturninus.

Marriage and offspring

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Torquata married her cousin Lucius Volusius Saturninus,[3] an Augur during the second century AD, and a Suffect consul during the reign of Trajan.[4] Marcus Metilius Aquillius Regulus Nepos Volusius Torquatus Fronto who served as a consul in 157, is thought to be their descendant.[2]

Inscriptional evidence

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The name of Torquata has been found in a funerary inscription in Rome now on display at the National Museum of Rome.[5] The inscription is dated from the second half of the 1st century through the first half of the 2nd century and reads in Latin (English translation follows):

Licinia Cornelia/M(arci) f(ilia) Volusia/Torquata/L(uci) Volusi co(n)s(ulis)/auguris
Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata, the daughter of Marcus, the wife of Lucius Volusius, consul, augur.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Biographischer Index der Antike, p.535
  2. ^ a b "Volusius (27)", RE, Supplementary volume 9, col. 1865
  3. ^ Elsner, Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi, p.26
  4. ^ "Volusius (22)", RE, Supplementary volume 9, col. 1864
  5. ^ Funerary inscription of Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata
  6. ^ CIL VI, 31726

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