Prisca (empress)

Aurelia Prisca (died 315) was a Roman empress as the wife of the emperor Diocletian.

[3] An inscription on a statue base at a temple to Jupiter in Salona gives her name as Aurelia Prisca.

When Galerius died in 311, Licinius was entrusted with the care of Prisca and her daughter Valeria.

After a short time, Valeria refused the marriage proposal of Maximinus, who arrested and confined her in Syria and confiscated her properties.

[5] According to the Latin writer Lactantius, Prisca and her daughter Valeria were "forced to be polluted" by sacrificing to the Roman gods during the Great Persecution of 303.

Historical reenactors at Diocletian's Palace ; actors playing Diocletian and Prisca are at centre.
Spolium from a temple to Jupiter , giving Prisca's nomen and title ("most noble lady Aurelia Prisca"). [ 1 ]