Cornelia Salonina

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This arch, a gate in the Servian Walls of Rome, was dedicate to Gallienus and SALONINAE SANCTISSIMAE AUG, "to Salonina most holy Augusta.

Cornelia Salonina (d. 268, Milan) was an Augusta, wife of Roman Emperor Gallienus and mother of Valerianus, Saloninus, and Egnatius Marinianus.

Salonina has an extensive coinage.

Her name is reported on coins with Latin legend as Cornelia Salonina; however, from the Greek coinage come the names Iulia Cornelia Salonina, Publia Licinia Cornelia Salonina, and Salonina Chrysogona (attribute that means "begotten of gold").

Nothing is known about her family. She was married to Gallienus about ten years before his accession to the throne. When her husband became joint-emperor with his father Valerian in 253, Cornelia Salonina was named Augusta.

Cornelia was probably murderd together with Gallienus during the siege of Milan, where the usurper Aureolus had fled, in 268. She was the mother of two princes, Saloninus and Julius Gallienus; and of one daughter, Licinia Galliena.

[edit] References

• "Salonina", Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, edited William Smith (1870).
• Partial Salonina coinage
• "Dictionary of Roman Coins", by Seth William Stevenson (1889).

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• The Wikimedia Commons has media related to Salonina.