Domitilla the Elder

Reece Period attributed: Period 4

Obverse image of a coin of Domitilla the Elder

Member of the The Flavians dynasty.

Coins for this issuer were issued from 39 until 69.

Flavia Domitilla was not even a full Roman citizen when Vespasian married her in AD 39; she had been the mistress of a Roman knight. She gave him two sons and a daughter who did not survive infancy; her sons, Titus and Domitian, both became emperors.

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Wikipedia derived information

Flavia Domitilla Major (Major, Latin for the elder) Flavia Domitilla the Elder or Domitilla the Elder (died before 69, perhaps circa65) was the wife of the Roman Emperor Vespasian.

She was a daughter of Flavius Liberalis, a humble quaestor’s clerk. Before her marriage, she was a formal mistress to an African knight. Vespasian married her around 38.

She was the mother of Domitilla the Younger and of the emperors Titus and Domitian and died before Vespasian assumed the purple..

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitilla_the_Elder
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