Plancia Magna

Plancia Magna (Greek: Πλανκία Μαγνά) was a prominent woman of Perga in the Roman province of Lycia et Pamphylia who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries.

Both Magna's father and her brother, Gaius Plancius Varus, were given the honorary title ktistes ("founder"), reflecting their local prominence and patronage of the city.

[2] Magna married the Roman Senator Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus, suffect consul in 100 with his friend Pliny the Younger.

These improvements included the restoration and expansion of the Hellenistic southern gate at Perga, a magnificent structure protecting the coast-facing entrance to the city, originally built in the 3rd century BC.

[6] The exit from the courtyard into the city was through a monumental triple passage arch, which housed further statues of Artemis (Perga's chief deity) and the deified imperial family.