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Mindia Matidia, also known as Matidia Minor (Minor being Latin for the younger, 85 – after 161) was a Roman imperial noblewoman in the early second century AD. She was related to several ancient Roman Emperors, as a great-niece to Trajan and half-sister to Vibia Sabina, who was the wife of Hadrian.
Marble portrait of Matidia Minor. Roman. ca. 138–161 CE. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 162. This head originally belonged to an honorary portrait statue of Mindia Matidia, or Matidia Minor (A.D. 85–162), half-sister of Sabina, wife of the emperor Hadrian, and aunt of the emperor Antoninus Pius.
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1. Introduction. In 98 c.e., a teenage Matidia Minor took up residence on the Palatine Hill in Rome as her great-uncle, M. Ulpius Trajanus, succeeded the late emperor Nerva as the Roman Empire’s newest ruler. Although she was the granddaughter of the new emperor’s sister, Ulpia Marciana, elder daughter of his niece, Salonia Matidia (the ...
Susan Wood. Purchase Article. Excavations at the Antonine-era theater at Suessa Aurunca have yielded an unorthodox statue of the building’s patron, Matidia Minor, the sister of Hadrian’s wife, Sabina. This statue now permits the identification of Matidia’s portrait in six additional replicas.
ffChapter 6 Introduction This study aims to illustrate briefly the true significance of Matidia Minor and Matidia Minor, a relatively little discussed member of the imperial family in the time of Hadrian and his immediate Suessa Aurunca successors.
- Sergio Cascella
The shapes of the braids and the turban recall the images of Matidia Minor and her sister Vibia Sabina, wife of Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD), the latter in the so-called "Vaison" type, both presented by imperial propaganda as positive examples of compliance with traditional virtues, and of high devotion to the emperor.
Matidia bore Mindius a daughter called Mindia Matidia, commonly known as Matidia Minor. Mindius died in 85. Denarius showing Matidia Augusta as the goddess Pietas, holding hands with her daughters Sabina and Matidia Minor. Matidia later married Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus, who was suffect consul in 88.
