Umbricia Fortunata (1st century AD) was a businesswoman known from the Roman city of Pompeii.
[1] Few details of Umbricia Fortunata's life can be established with any certainty, however, she is known from three tituli picti on the jars of urceus type.
[4] Scaurus owned a number of workshops in Pompeii, run by employed managers, whose names and roles are identified in inscriptions found on urcei, vessels that contained the sauce.
[6] However, some scholars have pointed out that she may also have been the Pompeian producer's relative — possibly his wife or sister.
Recent scholarship, notably work by Piotr Berdowski of the University of Rzeszów, has identified a fuller range of trades and commercial activities involving businesswomen, including brick and tile production, pottery and ceramics, food production, cloth manufacture, commerce and finance.