Volusia Saturnina

Volusia Saturnina also known from her funeral inscription as Volusia Latina Saturnina[1] was a Roman noble woman who lived in the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century BC and first half of the first century AD.

Volusia Latina Saturnina
Spouse(s)Marcus Lollius
ChildrenLollia Saturnina
Lollia Paulina
Parents

Family background

Saturnina came from an ancient and distinguished Senatorial family, that never rose above the Praetorship[2] which was of eques status.[3]

She was the daughter of the suffect consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus from his wife Nonia Polla.[4] Volusia Saturnina was a first cousin once removed to Roman emperor Tiberius and his brother, the General Nero Claudius Drusus.[5] Her brother was the suffect consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus.[6]

Marriage and issue

Saturnina married Marcus Lollius,[7] the son of the consul and military leader Marcus Lollius[8] and his wife Aurelia. Aurelia was a sister to the Roman Senator Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus.[9]

Saturnina and Lollius had two daughters:[8]

References
  1. Hainzmann, Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum, p.718 & 894
  2. Tacitus, Annales, III.30
  3. Genealogy of Volusius Saturninus by D.C. O’Driscoll
  4. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2001). ZPE. 136. University of Michigan: Habelt. p. 229.
  5. Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford: University Press, 1960), p. 424
  6. Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.). Clarendon Press. pp. ?. ISBN 9780198147312.
  7. Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, p. 169
  8. Marcus Lollius’ article at Livius.org
  9. Syme, Roman Revolution, p. 178

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