Salonia Matidia

Salonia Matidia[1][2] (4 July 68 – 23 December 119)[3] was the daughter and only child of Ulpia Marciana and wealthy praetor Gaius Salonius Matidius Patruinus.

Matidia bore Sabinus a daughter called Vibia Sabina, who would marry the future Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Matidia later married Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus, who was suffect consul in 88.

[8] In 119 Matidia died, whereupon the Roman Emperor Hadrian delivered her funeral oration, deified her, and granted her a temple and altar in Rome itself.

[9] She thus became the first divinized Roman woman to be dedicated a full-scale temple of her own, as opposed to one shared with her husband or a smaller shrine.

Denarius showing Matidia Augusta as the goddess Pietas , holding hands with her daughters Sabina and Matidia Minor
Denarius depicting Matidia; the reverse, depicting an eagle with the legend CONSECRATIO , commemorates her consecration as a diva