Pomponia Ummidia (219-after 275) was Anatolian Roman noblewoman and was a prominent figure in Rome during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus, Quintillus and Aurelian. She lived in the period the Crisis of the Third Century in the Roman Empire.
Pomponia Ummidia came from a distinguished senatorial family. She was the daughter of the Roman Senator Pomponius Bassus and the wealthy heiress Annia Aurelia Faustina, while her brother was the Roman Senator Pomponius Bassus. She was of Italian Roman and Pontian Greek ancestry.
The paternal great, grandparents of her mother was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger. Through her mother, Pomponia Ummidia was a descendant of the former ruling Nerva–Antonine dynasty of the Roman Empire.
Her cognomen Ummidia reveals that she was a distant relative to the Ummidia (gens). Her mother named her this cognomen and names her in honor of three late relatives from the gens, who were:
She along with her brother, Pomponia Ummidia were born and raised in her mother’s large in Pisidia. The estate her and her brother, was born and raised in is one of a number of estates in Pisidia called the Cyllanian Estates. These estates were very large properties and were around from the time of the Roman Dictator of the Roman Republic, Lucius Cornelius Sulla (c. 138 BC-78 BC).
When her father died in 221, her mother was briefly married to the Roman Emperor Elagabalus. By the end of 221, Elagabalus had ended their marriage and divorced her mother.
When Annia Aurelia Faustina had died, Pomponia Ummidia had inherited her mother’s estate and the fortune of her mother. Through this, she became a very wealthy heiress. According to the inscriptions found at the estate, Pomponia Ummidia is named as the heiress of the estate and who inherited the estate from her parents. These inscriptions reveal that Pomponia Ummidia married a Greek Politician called Flavius Antiochianus. Flavius Antiochianus was an active politician in the reigns of the four above mentioned Roman Emperors. She had spent her time between Rome and Pisidia. According to these inscriptions, Pomponia Ummidia appeared to have been a virtuous person in character. It is unknown whether if, Pomponia Ummidia bore Flavius Antiochianus any children.