Julia Tertulla was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century and 2nd century in the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterr ...

. Tertulla was the daughter of suffect consul

Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus was a Roman senator who was active during the late 1st and early 2nd centuries. He is best known as the older friend of Pliny the Younger, with whom Cornutus was suffect consul for the '' nundinium'' of September t ...

and the identity of her mother is unknown. Tertulla was born and raised in

Perga Perga or Perge ( Hittite: ''Parha'', el, Πέργη ''Perge'', tr, Perge) was originally an ancient Lycian settlement that later became a Greek city in Pamphylia. It was the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda, now located in ...

, the capital of the

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Pamphylia Pamphylia (; grc, Παμφυλία, ''Pamphylía'') was a region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus (all in modern-day Antalya province, Turkey). It was bounded on the north by ...

. She was the paternal aunt to

Gaius Julius Plancius Varus Cornutus Gaius Julius Plancius Varus Cornutus was a man of Roman Senatorial rank who lived in the Roman Empire in the 2nd century. Cornutus was the son of Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus and Plancia Magna. His paternal grandparents were the Proconsul and ...

. She married

Lucius Julius Marinus Caecilius Simplex Lucius Julius Marinus Caecilius Simplex was a Roman empire, Roman Roman senate, senator who held several posts in the emperor's service. Simplex was then appointed Roman consul, suffect consul in late 101, with Lucius Arruntius Stella as his collea ...

, a

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. He was

Proconsul A proconsul was an official of ancient Rome who acted on behalf of a consul. A proconsul was typically a former consul. The term is also used in recent history for officials with delegated authority. In the Roman Republic, military command, or ' ...

Lycia et Pamphylia Lycia et Pamphylia was the name of a province of the Roman empire, located in southern Anatolia. It was created by the emperor Vespasian (69–79), who merged Lycia and Pamphylia into a single administrative unit. In 43 AD, the emperor Claudius ...

from 96-98 and served as a consul in 101 during the reign of the Roman Emperor

Trajan Trajan ( ; la, Caesar Nerva Traianus; 18 September 539/11 August 117) was Roman emperor from 98 to 117. Officially declared ''optimus princeps'' ("best ruler") by the senate, Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presi ...

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. In the city of

Tlos Tlos ( Lycian: 𐊗𐊍𐊀𐊇𐊀 ''Tlawa'', Hittite: 𒁕𒆷𒉿 ''Dalawa'', grc, Τλώς or Τλῶς) was an ancient Lycian city near the modern town of Seydikemer in the Mugla Province of southern Turkey, some 4 kilometres northwest o ...

, Lycia there is an honorary inscription dedicated to her as the wife of Caecilius Simplex. This dedication was most probably done when her husband served as a legatus Augusti in that province.

Sources

*Shelagh Jameson
"Cornutus Tertullus and the Plancii of Perge"
''Journal of Roman Studies'', 55 (1965), pp. 54-58 *Jones, Brian W. (1992). ''The Emperor Domitian'', Routledge *{{Cite book , publisher = Routledge , isbn = 0-415-28917-3 , pages = xvi , last = Grainger , first = John D. , title = Nerva and the Roman succession Crisis AD 96-99 , location = London, New York , date = 2003 , oclc = 52012210 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QHrQoDLNBUIC&dq=Iotape+of+Commagene&pg=PT19 People from Roman Anatolia 1st-century Roman women 2nd-century Roman women Tertulla