Minatia Polla of Gens Sulpicia 40 CE

July 03, 2020

Minatia Polla of Gens Sulpicia 40 CE

"The gens Sulpicia was one of the most ancient patrician families at ancient Rome, and produced a succession of distinguished men, from the foundation of the Republic to the imperial period."

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"Mausoleum of L. Sulpicius Platorinus, a magistrate under Augustus & his sister identified by the banks of the Tiber in 1880, dismantled in 1883, reconstructed in 1911 in the Diocletian baths. The head is of Minatia Polla who died aged abt 16 in 40 CE She is surrounded by urns."

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"Roman marble portrait; the so-called Minatia Polla now in the National Museum (Terme), Rome. Discovered in 1880 at the tomb of C. Sulpicius Platorinus in Rome. A cinerary urn found in the tomb included the inscription to a young girl ("Minatiae Pollae; CIL 6.31763). It is from this burial that the portrait has received its popular name.

Dated to ca. A.D. 40, thus of the Julio-Claudian period.

"...ultimi anni di Tiberio o in quelli di Caligula, fra il 35 e il 40 d.C.": Catalog of the Museo Nazionale Romano, I,1 (Rome 1979): 289.

Height ca. 35 cm.
Museum inventory 1043.
U2009.2675."

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