Carminia Ammia Explained

Carminia Ammia (fl.) 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.

Sources

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

References

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

Notes and References

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