Carminia Ammia

Carminia Ammia (fl. c. 140 – c. 170 AD) was a Graeco-Roman public benefactress.^[1] She was the second wife of Marcus Ulpius Carminius Claudius the elder, a priest of the goddess Aphrodite in Attouda, Caria, in Asia Minor.^[2]

Carminia held the civic honour of stephanephoros, a title given to magistrates in some Greek cities who had been granted the honor of being allowed to wear a wreath or garland on public occasions.^[3] She also served as priestess of Thea Maeter Adrastos and of Aphrodite. Her first priesthood was later held by her son Marcus Ulpius Carminius Claudianus the younger.^[4]^[5] Her granddaughter, Ulpia Carminia Claudiana also held civic office. This granddaughter appeared on Roman coinage with Geta Caesar, the son of emperor Septimius Severus and brother of Caracalla.^[5]

Sources[edit]

R.van Briemen, The Limits of Participation (1996)

References[edit]

^ Pauly, August Friedrich von (1960). Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft: Supplementband (in German). A. Druckenmüller.
^ L'Année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l'antiquité romaine (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. 1968.
^ Polis (in Spanish). Departamento de Historia I y Filosofía, Area de Historia Antigua. 2000.
^ Thonemann, Peter (2011-09-22). The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49935-4.
^ ^a ^b Siekierka, Przemysław; Stebnicka, Krystyna; Wolicki, Aleksander (2021-07-05). Women and the Polis: Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women in the Greek Cities from the Late Classical to the Roman Period. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-064428-9.

Peter J. Thonemann & Funda Ertuğrul, "The Carminii of Attouda", Epigraphica Anatolica, 38 (2005), pp. 75–86

[1] Pauly, August Friedrich von (1960). Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft: Supplementband (in German). A. Druckenmüller.

[2] L'Année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l'antiquité romaine (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. 1968.

[3] Polis (in Spanish). Departamento de Historia I y Filosofía, Area de Historia Antigua. 2000.

[4] Thonemann, Peter (2011-09-22). The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49935-4.

[:0-5] Siekierka, Przemysław; Stebnicka, Krystyna; Wolicki, Aleksander (2021-07-05). Women and the Polis: Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women in the Greek Cities from the Late Classical to the Roman Period. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-064428-9.

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